#abiword — Public Fediverse posts
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Achei a ideia do #PocketTerm35 da #Waveshare interessante, apesar da ausência de um #trackball, mas a tela de 640x480, apesar de teoricamente adequada, reforça o retrocesso acumulado ao longo de décadas: apesar de todo o blá, blá, blá sobre convergência e dispositivos móveis, a realidade é outra, com desktop environments pesados demais para rodar em SBCs com 1 GB ou 2 GB de RAM (as poucas especificações minimamente acessíveis nos dias de hoje) e, em geral, pouca oferta de software convergente para algo além de relógios, cronômetros e calendários.
O #GNOME, por exemplo, ainda tem problemas para exibir a grade de aplicativos a 720p, caso o scaling seja de 125% ou maior para tornar a leitura mais fácil em tela pequenas (o que, na prática, reduz a resolução) e, em linhas gerais, parece muito pouco testado para cenários do tipo. E, claro, o GNOME não é exatamente o tipo de ambiente gráfico que você vai rodar num dispositivo, seja ARM, seja x86, com 1 GB ou 2 GB de RAM.
Mesmo aplicativos mais antigos e fora dos holofotes, como #Abiword e #Gnumeric realisticamente esperam 800x600 de resolução. É compreensível, mas problemático. Simplesmente não temos quase nada que rode em 640x480.
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#Linux experts (#Mint #Debian):
Who has recommendations for...
(1) Graphical #cron-job editor
(2) Graphical #Systemd editor - specifically timers
(3) Graphical file-share / #Samba configurator
(4) Graphical File transfer client (SFTP/S3), like Cyberduck
(5) Video editor (similar to #FinalCutPro on #MacOS)
(6) Easy to use vector drawing tool (Simpler and easier than #inkscape )
(7) Simple document editor (I used to like #AbiWord back in the day - #LibreWriter feels very complicated to me) -
#TIL: If you want to edit a document in your language with #AbiWord, better set the language first. #Forexample, in Linux you set the environment variable LANG before invoking #abiword, you can do it in one #bash command. f'rinstance:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 abiword
Of course you don't have to change anything, if you work in #english
Otherwise, the characters become FUBAR!
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It wasn't #Abiword the official Gnome word-processor? 🤷♂️
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I guess I'd like to understand what magical things you can do with a word processor from #Microsoft that I can't do with #AbiWord or #LibreOffice. At this stage, getting me back to Word would require both dragons and lasers.
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New #blog post: Setting up #Gnome (Linux) for #seniors. I've been looking into how to best set up an extremely simplified and limited #Linux for #elderly people. There don't seem to be many pre-existing efforts for this, so I figured I'd write a short blog about it.
https://bammerlaan.nl/posts/Setting-up-Gnome-(Linux)-for-seniors
I've added #Mastodon as a #comment system for all my #blog posts. A reaction to this Mastodon post will show up as a comment.
#opensource #software #firefox #geary #abiword #nautilus #extensions #plugins
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@mosgaard Yes, in fact, I've been working on a blog post describing how I'm setting up #Gnome to be as simple as possible (with extensions) and what software I use.
Regarding email, I've opted for #Geary instead of #Thunderbird. Much fewer features, which in this case is a good thing. (Myself, I would absolutely go for Thunderbird...) I already set it up to work with his email, so compatibility isn't a problem.
#Abiword similarly seems nice and low in features, I've been trying it out.
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Whenever I see people talking about LIbreOffice, I think back to the early days of GNOME of AbiWord and Gnumeric.
While they didn't have all the bells and whistles of LibreOffice, they were a delight to use- fast, easy, and I'd say they were fun too.
Yes, StarOffice was functional and powerful, it was never really *fun*. While I'm glad it was freed and made into OpenOffice, then LibreOffice, I wish the simpler tools had persisted.
#LibreOffice #GNOME #OpenOffice #StarOffice #AbiWord #Gnumeric
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@tecnoysoft Tremendo clon del viejo Word 2.0 para Winchot. Lo recomiendo también. #AbiWord
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@[email protected] @[email protected] ja, die habe ich auch beide installiert. Auf meinem Hauptgerät zusätzlich und gerade für ältere/schwächere Geräte sind das super Alternativen, die super schnell und sparsam sind und für viele Anwendungsfälle aber ausreichen.
Das #Gnumeric und #Abiword aber auch zusammenhängen und als "Office-Suite" bezeichnet werden, war mir aber nicht klar. Aber ist es nicht eher von #Lubuntu bzw. #LXDE statt von #Gnome ? -
What happened to abi-collab? @nextcloud and @libreoffice still doesn't have a way to collaborate on documents in a full desktop app like Microsoft offers, but #abiword had that in 2009.
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Regarding writing, my sole idea now is to rely on #Abiword to simply write down stuff and lay it out in a very basic way, then give it to a professional to create a satisfying layout for ebook and print.
Regarding computers, I am considering writing down a white paper just for the sake of proposing how to do things differently. Sounds quite dumb and I suppose many people did the same but I keep thinking that we went too far with IT. I wish things could be simpler. Our lives would be improved.
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@peotr26 the #OpenDocument standard allows two approaches: the file can be a ZIP archive of XML and other packed content, or the file can be a flat XML file. Maybe #AbiWord defaults to the latter? Try opening the larger file in a text editor - a flat XML file will be human readable. A ZIP version will open in a ZIP compatible archive tool. If both look zipped, then look at the properties (in Ark, File->Properties) for compression ratio - perhaps the two apps compress files differently.
