[sugar] New Abiword build and sugar icons.

[msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au]

> Send me a link, I'll test it out and then add it to our builds if
> nothing bad occurs.  I will be spinning a last build before I leave at
> about 5:00.
>

Hot off of uwog's build machines...

http://www.abisource.com/~uwog/abiword-sugar-2.5.0-5.i386.rpm
http://www.abisource.com/~uwog/abiword-sugar-2.5.0-5.src.rpm

cheers

Martin
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 13:26 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
>> I leave it up to John Palmieri as to whether it can make it into today's
>> build.  Whether we have time to test it, is the issue.
>>                                 - Jim
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 05:15 +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> > > We can't possibly put this into our Friday (today) build with this
>> major
>> > > a change, nice as it is to pull in Pango for its
>> internationalization.
>> > > This build is intended to be "big/low risk bug fixes only".
>> Changing
>> > > rendering engines, even moving to one that is used elsewhere is a
>> major
>> > > risk.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Sorry, I wasn't clear. The rendering engine always used pango. The
>> current
>> > version uses pango. This version has lots of bugs fixd in it.
>> >
>> > > There probably won't be another build for a couple weeks.
>> > >
>> > > Please, next time branch in your source repository for a release, so
>> > > that key bug fixes can be done without pulling in major new
>> > > functionality (e.g. Pango support).
>> > >
>> > > We *will* want to put the pango version in quickly after as possible
>> > > after today's build, so that it can have good soak-in before
>> BTest-2;
>> > > and we'd be happy to make the update available separately from the
>> base
>> > > system immediately for those who want it.
>> >
>> > You have it now. It is better than before.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Martin
>> >
>> > >                           Best Regards,
>> > >                                         - Jim Gettys
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 20:15 +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au
>> wrote:
>> > >> Hi everyone,
>> > >>             I've commited a number of fixes to the sugar branch of
>> > >> abiword
>> > >> that fixes the home directory issue, updates the AbiWord text
>> > >> processing to handle all the pango-capable languages and
>> > >> provides 48x48 pixel icons for AbiWord toolbars. I took the
>> > >> icons from the tango project.
>> > >>
>> > >> Marc (uwog) should be able to provide rpm's within a few hours.
>> > >>
>> > >> The new text processing capabilities mean Abiword should in
>> principle be
>> > >> able  to the right things for a very large fraction of the world's
>> > >> languages including Arabic and Thai. We would really appreciate
>> feedback
>> > >> from native speakers and writers in these languages though.
>> > >>
>> > >> Regarding the toolabr icons, AbiWord normally uses the gtk-stock
>> icons
>> > >> so
>> > >> it is icon themeable. I think a better solution would be for the
>> sugar
>> > >> project to develop it's own icon theme with the large icons needed
>> for
>> > >> the
>> > >> OLPC. This would benefit all applications ported to sugar. I made a
>> > >> special OLPC hack for this release though.
>> > >>
>> > >> Cheers
>> > >>
>> > >> Martin
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
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>> > > Jim Gettys
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>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
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