AbiWord
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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.