Comment 21 for bug 24195

That does sound kind of rude. Mantas has plenty of valid points,
avoiding user confusion and making software compatible and easy to use
is one of the goals of Ubuntu. Of course there is not exact
compatibility between abiwords default format and odt but at least
Mantas has brought the (important) issue to the forefront, we welcome
you to submit a patch that addresses the problem as well.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Hubert Figuiere <email address hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:41 +0000, Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
> > If we really wanna be compatible across Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu
> > then we should set default save format in AbiWord to OpenDocument.
> > There are no applications in Ubuntu or Kubuntu, which supports .abw
> > format, so, documents, made by Xubuntu users are not readable with
> > Kubuntu or Ubuntu :(
> > KDE KOffice/KWord already uses OpenDocument as default file format,
> > so, just set AbiWord to OpenDocument as default and all users will be
> > happy, none wanna care about file formats these days :)
>
> I don't want to sound rude, but you don't know what you are even talking
> about and what are the problems that would be caused by this. Now we
> welcome you to submit any patch to address the problem in AbiWord.
>
> ODT is not a golden hammer, and AbiWord hasn't been designed to map ODT,
> nor has ODT been designed to map AbiWord. That mean perfect round trip
> conversion is not happening.
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> OpenDocument plugin should be shipped with Abiword, not -plugins
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24195
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