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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Paste special
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-09-16 10:39:02
Message-ID: 200709161239.02972.zander () kde ! org
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On Sunday 16 September 2007 12:20:56 John Tapsell wrote:
> Thomas,
>
>   I think the "obvious" solution is to simply assume  text/*  can be
> pasted as text, and other mimetypes can't.

ODF is not a 'text/*' mimetype.  And it still contains text (which is 
pastable for many apps as soon as we get the kodf module up and running)

>   For the usecases you specified, I don't want to think about them to
> be honest.  It is totally fine for koffice programs to do something
> more advanced than other apps.

Sharing infrastructure as well as sharing the workflow is important, 
though.

>   I think it would be great to just worry about "normal" programs -
> kate, kwrite, konversation, konsole, etc.

So, in konversation you don't see the use of having a 'paste special' that 
shows a dialog to allow you to reformat a text or email ?  For example by 
removing linebreaks from a text you copy pasted from an email.

Personally, I don't think the KOffice usecases are that weird, and the 
showing of a dialog with a nice extensible API sounds just fine for all 
apps to me.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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