Re: Word attachment...on linuxtoday

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 00:31, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > Speaking of re-inventing the wheel, does the Evolution team plan to use
> > wvHTML to render MS Word docs into in-line HTML for Evolution? wvHTML
> > handles tables rather well and is part of the gnome-office library.
> 
> 	I believe that if a AbiWord implemented a Bonobo control and registered
> itself against the right mime-types, then evolution would automatically
> display word documents in-line.
> 

We (and me in particular) *REALLY* want to make abiword a bonobo
control. I think I finally understand enough about bonobo to make it
happen on a reasonable timescale.

Cheers :-)

Martin