AbiWord

Screenshot of AbiWord inside Sugar

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

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