[sugar] Abiword on the OLPC?

[Ian Bicking]

MBurns wrote:
> Given the weight and complexity of Abirword, a more simplistic and 
> Python-written editor still seems to have an attractive option. 

In practice, people who write Python editors tend to use some existing 
editor, for whatever reason.  I guess the specifics of editing large 
chunks of text involve lots of fine-grained UI that is intimately tied 
to the underlying GUI system (e.g., GTK).

> If the OLPC is planning a more web-based interface, with collaboration 
> and UIs being presented in the form of natively hosted webpages, most of 
> the above Editor ideas fall by the wayside.

A wiki doesn't *have* to mean a web-based interface, at least not 
exclusively.

There is a wiki markup: 
http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=document-format.txt 
-- if Abiword could read and write that markup (even disabling styling 
controls that aren't supported by the markup) that'd be very useful.

The wiki content should be accessible over dbus, and just as available 
to Abiword as to other user agents.  And maybe (?) the backend will 
handle remote (offline?) editing seamlessly.

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