On Friday 01 June 2001 00:25, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 00:14 you wrote:
> 
> hah, pop3 is there again :)
> 
> >  > I think I understand what you mean (KOffice still compiling). Actually,
> >  > why does the preview always hide when changing the mimetype? I find that
> >  > rather ugly. Yes, it takes away some space when it's not used, but it
> >  > takes away time when it shakes up your entire view everytime you
> >  > highlight a file.
> >
> >  I really prefer that it "shakes up my view" to appear when it's needed.
> >  In 90% of the cases it's not needed (e.g. when saving in native format),
> >  so we really don't want a gray area to be there all the time.
> 
> well, in the case of saving, it's arguable that the preview should be shown 
> at all. You usually don't need a 'preview' for saving, right? Ok, KOffice 
> uses the preview-widget for other stuff as well, but we might use another 
> mechanism for that (that extension stuff).

Yes, it's called preview but we use it in KOffice to provide a widget where
we ask for options for the filters. If there's some extension stuff I'll be happy
to use it :)

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