Tomas Frydrych reports on his successful efforts to get AbiWord installed on his Nokia 770 in his “blog of an AbiWord hacker,” The Whole is Less than the Sum of the Parts (or so it seems).

Initial observations on using AW on the device:

* Dialogues do not work; the glade files are hardcoded as being in /usr/share … while the installation on the device is in /var/lib/install/usr/share …

* We really need a proper normal mode without margins. The margins are costing us too much realestate, and as a result the text is too small.

* The Full screen button does not work.

He notes: “If I am not mistaken, the INdT package is based on 2.2.7; Renato build also 2.4 package, but it has many more dependencies, so I thought I start with this one.”

Image of AbiWord 2.4 from Tux en Recife; our earlier report.

Update: Renato Oliveira at Tux en Recife writes that he has “made all packages to install abiword-2.4 in maemo 1.1rc5, these packages require you to install using ‘dpkg’ and not ‘application-installer’, for ‘application-installer’ I will make packages soon.”

Link to the new packages.