User Feedback :: word processors
I'll keep it quick.
PW is pants. Both .dsl extension and integrated. Crashes repeatedly with loss of data. Struggled to open .rtfs which Ted found much easier. The totally non-functioning cut/copy and paste in PW is a showstopper for someone with a notebook just with a touchpad. Yes the gui is nicer, no it is not nice to use.
The PW problems must surely be a DSL compatbility issue as the SIAG officesuite has been a standard fixture in smaller distros for years it seems. They can't all be struggling with PW!
Ted works best on my .rtf converted .doc files from work, the table function is real bonus, the lack of undo a pain.
What spoils Ted is a cut/copy/paste bug whereby several copies of your edited text gets copied instead of once.
The Xd640 site forum acknowledges that FLwriter latest version is a lot buggier than the old one. If a separate file converter program has to be used, why bother?.
Ledit has multi-level undo which none of the other three have I think. If it is reliable, lets try it for a while.
I suggest:- delete integrated PW, add Ledit instead, (keep Siag spreadsheet which is stable and reliable - unlike abs), Keep Ted as a separate .dsl.
The ideal solution would be to trim away some of the less critical features in Abiword and have an integrated 'Lite' version of it. If something has to go then Firefox which I never use. The full Opera .dsl is the business.
If LEdit is free software, why can't John just ask for permission to include in DSL if it is small enough? It would be great advertisement to draw attention to their other products.
Just a thought.
Chris
Ledit is not free, it has a restrictive license which prohibits redistribution. Really, it is a shame because it is a nice little word processor.
As for the latest flwriter bing more buggy than previous releases, I've compiled it from source and at least my build seems relatively stable.
Ledit - It is a shame. Iv'e just tried this out on my Win98 machine and it works really well: Cut&paste, undo formatting, etc. tables creation. It opens highly formatted documents including tables saved as .rtf in both Word and Abiword easily. I would definitely take this over Ted, FL, PW anyday.
pathetic makes honor to its name as it is totally useless.
actually I'm surprised it is still there in the latest DSL.
The GUI is nice but functionality is very poor.
ted is more dependable and it's still the one I prefer.
max
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