Comment 16 for bug 24195

 Lukas Sabota wrote on 2006-03-22:
> Abiword is the default word processor of Xubuntu. It should be compatible with Ubuntu.

If we really wanna be compatible across Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu then we should set default save format in AbiWord to OpenDocument. There are no applications in Ubuntu or Kubuntu, which supports .abw format, so, documents, made by Xubuntu users are not readable with Kubuntu or Ubuntu :(
KDE KOffice/KWord already uses OpenDocument as default file format, so, just set AbiWord to OpenDocument as default and all users will be happy, none wanna care about file formats these days :)

Of course, we should check how OpenDocument export/import plugin works with latest AbiWord version (it seems ver. 2.6 soon will be released) - if the quality of OpenDocument export/import plugin is good enough - then we can set default save format to OpenDocument, if there are too many problems - then we should give some information for users, how to change default file format (most of users wanna set RTF to default save format of Abiword). It's too hard to change default file format in AbiWord for most of Desktop users - the only way to do this is editing of config file, see http://bugzilla.abiword.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3325 :

You can go edit your AbiWord.Profile file and add the following line to the _custom_ scheme

DefaultSaveFormat=".rtf"

where .rtf is the common extension of the format you want...