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[[Image:Abiword_with_no_frame.png|right|320 px|thumb|Screenshot of AbiWord inside Sugar]]

[[Image:Activity4.png]][http://www.abiword.com AbiWord] is an Open Source word processor that uses [[GTK]] as its GUI.


The AbiWord project has financed [http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/TheAbiWordOLPCUserInterface an AbiWord Summer of Code project] to produce a version with a user interface tailored to the OLPC hardware and the typical OLPC user. The following is the outcome of that project:

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=What's been done...=

*AbiWord runs in the sugar shell
*It has a minimal interface with a custom toolbar
*I implemented a new clipart toolbar that lets kids drag and drop pictures into their documents

=What's left to do...=

*Polish (make clipart bar look nicer, have it look for clipart somewhere intelligently)
*Finish implementing table menu button
*Integrate AbiCollab with Sugar shell
*Use clipart bar to add drawings drawing app

=More Details=
*http://www.snowedin.net/summerofcode/
*http://www.snowedin.net/ideas/AbiWord+on+OLPC

Latest revision as of 19:11, 4 September 2007

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