[lubuntu-devel] Abiword issue for Lubuntu Xenial
Nio Wiklund
nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 08:32:37 UTC 2016
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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