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hub_ | 6 years ago | on: Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel

Yep, you need a new battery. Getting one from Dell is harder than actually replacing it.

USB-C as a power connector work great when the proprietary power supply die as you are waiting to get a replacement battery. (true story) (I have a 9360 model, which doesn't like the batteries for the 9350)

hub_ | 9 years ago | on: Free Software Foundation Priority Projects

Why would that be on the list? Isn't there already a solution? It doesn't need to be GPL licensed for getting FSF recognition - a non copyleft but Libre license is fine.

hub_ | 9 years ago | on: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers

There is a disable autoplay in Firefox as a hidden pref. Enabling it break YouTube (offender number 1) and Vimeo.

Vimeo's take is that it is a bug in the browser hence it should be fixed. But then Vimeo are the same that told use to use Safari on Linux because Firefox "didn't support HTML5" (it did, just not encumbered H264 codec, but when you are lying, do the extra mile).

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

My approach is not to throw away. The changes are incremental and definitely the spirit of the original code is here.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

Nope.

ClarisWord never existed — ClarisWorks was the product. Claris had MacWrite II for a time because they were the software spin-off from Apple, and that was their stand alone word processor offering, not much better than Claris Works, which was one application unlike MS-Office.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

I was in that group. There is so much that can be done just like that.

And Abi as a company was long gone by that time.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

You know it is hard to order people to do something when they aren't paid. Even project like OpenOffice.org that had commercial venture had hardship with funding. Oracle cancelled it, Novell cancelled it, IBM do whatever they want, etc.

All in all, GNOME Office didn't happen. Some bits did, though. AbiWord was always broader than GNOME. And Gnumeric is great IMHO.

And people see the future in the cloud.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

There is definitely lots of improvement to do in that area for AbiWord.

There is a long list of bugs from every side.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

Porting to iOS would be easier than to Android. Because on iOS we can simply write the UI code in Objective-C++.

On Android, it involve doing JNI + Java and cross compiling the AbiWord engine. Something like what Firefox for Android is doing.

But neither is in the pipe.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

I'm not sure this will go the way one would want. There is nobody to do Windows and the Mac port has also fallen behind. I'd rather continue the bootstrapped Qt port in parallel to Gtk and use that.

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

nope. Never had eye surgery and I have normal vision without glasses.

It was just a nod a reading stuff with a second set of eyes (ie code I didn't write).

hub_ | 10 years ago | on: Modernizing AbiWord code

It can read .doc. Never write. When it writes .doc it is actually writing RTF. A kludge, but this is better than always explaining users that saving as .rtf will be fine. And Word did that for a while part of a feature that was removed in an update. The only things were this didn't work is for some proprietary CMS that supported .doc but not .rtf.

I'm personally not super happy about that, but it is still much better than not doing it.

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