Re: Announcement: starting to write a RTF viewer

[Reklaw <adam localhost localdomain>]

Look at their "Know Bugs" section. Sometimes, the wheel is square.
Seriously, This thing started as For-Pay Software. I work in a "For-Pay"
shop. I means (most likely) that the code was written under insane time demands
and good design was thrown out for the sake of speed. Sometimes it is
better to cut your losses and begin anew.

I know this is not a popular view with user, managers, sales, and marketing.
But the cool thing about open source, free software, is that the programmers
decide how to spend thier time.

Regards,
Reklaw

On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 09:03:00AM -0400, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 1998, Reklaw wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 03:57:56PM -0400, Jonathan R Blandford wrote:
> >> > I've just decided to start writing a Gnome-based RTF viewer, following 
> >> > the advice mailed to me by Mark Galassi.
> >> 
> >> > I was also thinking of writing it as a ggv module or plug-in or
> >> > something similar, do you think it's possible?
> >> 
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>   I don't know if Gnome needs an RTF viewer, but if you would like to
> >> write one, go ahead. (:  I maintain the ggv module, and am currently in
> >> the process of adding dvi support to it.  If you want to add RTF to it,
> >> let me know...
> >> 
> >> -Jonathan
> >> 
> >Maxwell has RTF support according to their web page. I just dled maxwell
> >and it just dumps core and since it require Motif 2.0 I can't recompile it.
> >So, yeah, I'd love and RTF viewer (and editor) for gnome.
> >
> 
> 	I have Maxwell as a  static binary.  It reads rtfs; it writes rtfs. and 
> MS Word can read its rtfs.  Wouldn't it be quicker to re-write the GUI to
> gtk than to reinvent all the things it does do well?
> 
> 	One of the developers is pretty accessible.  I hate to see the wheel
> reinvented if it's not necessary.   The developer I corresponded with said that
> Maxwell compiled for him with glibc2 libs (and obviously Motif).
> 
> -- 
> Rebecca Ore
> 
> 
> 	

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