Re: Editing cells in gnumeric

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

> I find that gnumeric is not the most stable
Please report any and all instabilities to
    1) bugzilla.gnome.org
    2) This list

We are nearing feture completeness for a 1.0 release and should be
very stable at this point.

> Supporting embedded newlines
Allowing M-Enter to add an embedded newline is probably simple, its
just a question of figuring out the trick to get GtkEntry to accept
it.  However, replacing GtkEntry with something more complex capable
of supporting multiline display will take some time.

> Editing in the cell rather than on the edit line.
This would be a nice feature to add but we have not looked at it.
The current item-edit code will hopefully be replaced by pango and
support for editing will be added then.  It does not seem worth
while doing to much work on it until then.

> Cell content limited to 2k
Gnumeric has no limits of that form.  GtkEntry has a 2k limit.
Hopefully as we transition to gnome 2.0 it will be removed.

> Crashing xls files
Please mail them directly to me.  Do not pass go.  We have a test
suite of several hundred files and we can load all of them without
crashing.  Some features are disabled, but none crash.  I can keep
your samples confidential if required, but _please_ send them to me.
XL import should be absolutely rock solid.

thanks for the feedback
    Jody