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OK, testers, I've put up new builds of libwv in the folder 20080213 - if you upgrade, in theory, that should fix the word import issue. Please let me know one way or another.

There are both Chinook and Bora versions.

(People who enjoy building things will note I also included the -dev package to build with. This is a fairly crude build - just copied the debian folder from my old package, rebuilt from Ubuntu, right into a SVN checkout of the latest WV.)

[EDIT: PS. Since this is still a prerelease, not in any repository, and libwv is a library, you will need to be in red pill mode (or use the terminal) to install it. Apologies for the inconvencience.]

I am unable to import odf files. I think this is because the abiword-plugins have not been packaged and file import and export is not working properly. Is it possible for someone to package the plugins so that odf import/export works?

That is correct, AbiWord plugins have not yet been packaged. They will likely require a separate Debian package, and I am not so great at debian packaging :-/ If someone would like to help out, please feel free - the AbiWord dev mailing list is a great resource and source of feedback.

I haven't run into any bugs yet with the new release but I'm still interested in the #1 feature (IMHO) holding it back from public adoption: on-screen keyboard input. Yes, I have a BT keyboard too but for minor edits or just playing around it's just not realistic to leave it out. All you n810 owners can pipe down! I wish I had the time and to dig in and enable it since I'm pretty sure it's a straightforward matter of Hildonising the input code. Incidentally, is there a svn/cvs repo for those of us who'd like to try hacking on it? Wasn't sure if there was a specific branch dedicated to Maemo development.

Larry

The actual AbiWord code is just in the main AbiWord SVN - this is the ABI-2-6-0-STABLE branch. I agree - we def. need text input, and I know it worked before the Chinook patch (because I used it), so it must have changed there. (The bug with the patch is here: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11242 It's a pretty clean patch, and was applied as-is. I already used it as a reference once to build the appropriate Bora build patch.) Basically, AbiWord has been/is fully Hildonized, there are just apparently a few issues that didn't come up in testing - I'm pretty sure Renato didn't have a 2008 hardware device when he made that patch, so no way of knowing that input bug.

If you want to try building it, look at the README.txt file on the garage project svn https://garage.maemo.org/projects/abiword and make sure to check out the correct branch of the AbiWord source (the Trunk/"2.7/8" branch will be touched up later - I'd prefer to get something stable ready first )

I just chatted with Renato tonight (who is the main force and experience with AbiWord on Maemo - the one who actually did the code and knows Maemo very well) and he'll take a look at the keyboard bug sometime soon here. I've done a bit of debugging and tracing myself with the newest build in GDB - if anyone wants to help with that and knows how to make it crash - install gdb using red pill mode or apt-get, then from an xterm run "gdb abiword", type r then hit enter, make it crash, then type bt and hit enter in the xterm. Copy and paste what you see into a bug report. (If you can make it hang, switch back into the xterm, hit control-c, then do the same bt thing and paste into a bug) If you're really cool, you can ssh in to the tablet and do the gdb abiword from a desktop - it will run on the device but you'll have the debug messages on a regular computer, perhaps easier to copy and paste out.

This would be really, really useful data, especially for those bugs that I can't seem to reproduce on Bora. (Some of which might go away in the next build.)

I am trying the Chinook version on n810, but I get:

/media/mmc1/abiword/rp # dpkg -i libwv-1.2-3_1.2.4\+svn2 0080213-1_armel.deb dpkg-deb: `libwv-1.2-3_1.2.4+svn20080213-1_armel.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing libwv-1.2-3_1.2.4+svn20080213-1_a rmel.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit statu s 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libwv-1.2-3_1.2.4+svn20080213-1_armel.deb

bye,
roberto

Hmm, OK. Either I uploaded it wrong or your download got corrupted. Try downloading again - I will upload it again later (in about 3-4 hours from this post)

[EDIT: Update: I re-uploaded those files for both bora and chinook.]

It works now, i installed both libwv and wv, but it seems it makes no difference for importing .doc

PS: I removed my own built abiword package, and installed your 20080212 version; remaining dependencies are the version i built myself. I will try later to replace them also.

roberto

Once you get the full set of my deps installed, file a bug with a test document if you still can't load doc, since I tested it on Bora and it worked.