<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Gettys</b> <<a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org">jg@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Our primary focus in the long term is to use a wiki-based collaborative<br>editing system, currently in design.</blockquote><div><br>While a realtime system in the form of a native text editor (See: SubEthaEdita on OS X, and others) is an ideal way to get kids to collaborate, if a wiki-based system has been chosen, I'll look forward to helping with that as it becomes available.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That being said, abiword's capabilities as a light-weight Microsoft Word<br>display program (and, for the moment, editor) is very attractive.
</blockquote><div><br>Indeed. It's interface is quite complex, but it has a great bit of usefulness that comes with it.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you want to scratch the itch it really fast, and can get us an RPM of<br>current abiword "sugarized" by Monday, we'd be more than happy; even<br>happier, if it is the version that was . Even if you don't, we'll may
<br>throw onto the distribution as is temporarily, just so we have something<br>in the image that can display .doc files and serve as a place holder for<br>editing.</blockquote><div><br>We will look into getting the "sugarized" abiword code, and see if we can make something happen with it. A long shot, but will be fun to try.
<br><br>Given the weight and complexity of Abirword, a more simplistic and Python-written editor still seems to have an attractive option. With the notable functionality of it being easily expanded and integrated with other Sugar Acitivities. More specifically, I envisioned this editor's engine to be able to serve as the basis for other Activity's text input (ie. the chat and IM program's input can be spell-checked or formatted by using the Text Editor Activity engine).
<br><br>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.<br></div></div><br>--<br>
Michael Burns<br>Oregon State University<br>