elementary OS

Drop Abiword and Gnumeric

Bug #829748 reported by Danielle Foré
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Bug Description

As a Council, we would like to drop Abiword and Gnumeric for a few reasons:

1. They are kind of weak in the line up. Compared to our other apps they are mediocre.
2. We don't have the resources to do anything about them.
3. Some people prefer LibreOffice (which says a lot since LibreOffice is a POS). Our office apps should be the clear choice.
4. They're GTK2 and we're trying to go 100% GTK3

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

Abiword ist gtk3, isnt it?

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote :

So which apps should be the replacements o.0?

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

No replacements at this time. You can always install whatever software you need afterwards.

If someday we come up with better solutions, we can include those.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Linked a blueprint about it
Brainstorming alternatives here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DQdBtgo1RDXXo4arN1-4geZ6xJYyKDkdcQNEHAYLMds/edit

Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Triaged
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

BTW, Gnumeric is the best spreadsheet app I've ever seen. It beats Calc and Excel for sure. The question is, if we need a spreadsheet app shipped by default at all?

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Gonzalo Fernandez (gonz-it) wrote :

I dream of and elementary design and development team to polish the ugly LibreOffice design (starting with the hugely thick cell borders in the Calc UI, and taking out the square (margins) you see in a new Write doc by default, and...) and to put it the elementary icon set on it.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

LibO 3.4.x contains many fixes for its GTK+ compatibility, so it should look better in Oneiric and later.

A while ago I ported Humanity to LibO, my work should land in Oneiric soon (bug 756895). OMG!Ubuntu! reported it a while ago: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/making-libreoffice-blend-in-ubuntu-icon-porting-project-download-plus-how-to-help/
Actually, I've ported even more icons since that report.

LibO icons were deduplicated and cleaned up since then, so porting elementary icons would be much easier now. I'm not going to undertake it, though - I have too much work to do in elementary OS.

Apart of minor polish, LibreOffice probably can't be fixed. There's IBM Lotus Symphony which is LibO with slightly better UI, but the whole thing is so bloated and ugly that there's nothing we can do about it.

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Behold. They're gone.

Changed in elementaryos:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Patrick Thomas Magill (pmagill) wrote :

I don't understand why AbiWord can not be adapted?

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Sumit Roy (roysumit1309) wrote :

I'm not sure if it is GTK but Kingsoft Office looks like a good lightweight alternative.

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