Comment 5 for bug 564722

Hi Milan,

Sorry I have no idea what is being shipped with Ubuntu. Certainly
abiword-2.8 has far better odt support than 2.6.x. I make development
builds of abiword all the time and odt support works very well. I use
abiword-2.8.4 several times a day for real work in Fedora 12 where odt
and docx support works fine. I wrote of what my guess of what the
issue was (no opendocument plugins) if it is not that I'm stumped.

Martin

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <email address hidden> wrote:
> Martin: Could you elaborate more on that? What do you think Ubuntu devs
> should do? Plugins are shipped with the main abiword package now.
>
> --
> No support for OpenDocument texts when upgrading from 2.6
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564722
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> Status in AbiWord: Confirmed
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: abiword
>
> After upgrading from Karmic, Abiword was not able to open .odt files correctly, but seemed to consider them as plain text files. I discovered Open and Save dialogs did not even list ODT as a known type, nor many of the text format plugins can support (only .abw, .doc and a few were listed). Removing ~/.Abisuite fixed that.
>
> So I think there needs to be a migration system to detect new plugins. A hack for Ubuntu could be to remove the directory, with the downside of loosing some data.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: abiword 2.8.2-2ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Apr 16 16:01:27 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: abiword
>
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