AbiWord

Screenshot of AbiWord inside Sugar

AbiWord is an Open Source word processor that uses GTK as its GUI.

The current focus is on a browser-based Abiword [1].

The AbiWord project has financed 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:

What's been done...

• AbiWord runs in the sugar shell
• It has a minimal interface with a custom toolbar
• A new clipart toolbar has been implemented that lets kids drag and drop pictures into their documents
• Made Abiword be embeddable as a Firefox widget

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
• Integrate the work being done on the Journal activity with Abiword applicable.

More Details

• http://www.snowedin.net/summerofcode/
• http://www.snowedin.net/ideas/AbiWord+on+OLPC