[lubuntu-devel] Abiword issue for Lubuntu Xenial

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Henk and Phill,

Abiword cannot change language on the fly, but it will use the default 
language. So when I install Swedish in Lubuntu, it will use Swedish and 
is useful for me unless I want to write in another language. For example 
I can type the Swedish letters åäö.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-03-26 kl. 08:36, skrev Henk Terhell:
> Phill,
> Thanks for the explanation.
> Under these circumstances, I think that a word processor in which the
> language cannot be changed is of no value to a major part of Lubuntu
> users and  this will have an impact on the appreciation of this new LTS
> version.
>
> Henk
>
> Op 2016-03-25 om 19:56 schreef Phill. Whiteside:
>> The bug you see is the bug,
>>
>> sadly, Abiword is needing a developer (dev) to keep the project alive.
>> This is a concern to us, but we do not have any spare devs.... If
>> someone has some experience in such work, I can ask to arrange some
>> assistance for them - But the people who have quietly offered, cannot
>> teach a new comer.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On 25 March 2016 at 18:01, Henk Terhell <hterhell at chello.nl
>> <mailto:hterhell at chello.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>     The release notes for Beta 2 imply that bug #1484785 of Abiword
>>     language selector is not related to Lubuntu. However, I run today
>>     a live session of Manjaro LXDE 16.03 (released a few days ago) and
>>     this bug was not present, though the new Manjaro distro is also
>>     using Openbox 3.6.1 and Abiword 3.0.1. There is an error message
>>     when checking Abiword version in Lubuntu Xenial, see
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1484785/+attachment/4611451/+files/abiword-version.jpg
>>
>>     Maybe this is of some help.
>>
>>     Henk
>>
>>     Op 2015-12-18 om 10:54 schreef Henk Terhell:
>>
>>         Bug # 1484785 reports that another language cannot be
>>         selected  in abiword because a compatibility problem with
>>         latest openbox.
>>         If this is not easily resolved for the lts-release I suggest
>>         abiword (and gnumeric) be replaced by libreoffice writer/calc
>>         in the Lubuntu Xenial desktop iso like was earlier decided for
>>         Xubuntu.
>>         I guess most people obtain libreoffice anyway after a fresh
>>         install, whereas fitting the iso on a cd is no longer the
>>         bottleneck.
>>
>>         Henk
>>
>>
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