Your message with subj: don't compress the koffice files

HI Charles,

a) I might be totally wrong but I don't see how this could be  a motivati=
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_not_ to compress. If they were shared, what would be the benefits of=20
compressing them?

b) But that is inpractical. Besides, ordinary user Joe are not able to=20
compress them manually and doesn't understand why all the extra work is g=
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for. I think it's the developer's/the application's responsibility.

c) So just because we have the bandwidth we shouldn't optimize it? Perhap=
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there's people using KOffice who don't have that fat bandwidth?

d) Absolutely true. But I have no plans of writing source code in kwd fil=
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Ofcourse, there's the demo files but they doesn't change regulary.. Or am=
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missing something?

e) First of all, the KOffice lib's provide beautiful solutions(KoStore ie=
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handling these tremendously complicated file formats. The second argument=
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just irrelevant; people send html files uncompressed because they're smal=
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they don't know how to compress or they just find it too complicated and=20
cumbersome to do it. This doesn't apply to KOffice, we don't compress htm=
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files but our own format, ie. *.kwd. And there's many good reason to comp=
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those.

f) This is true. AFAIK KOffice will change to zip instead of tar/gz, just=
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OpenOffice does to solve this problem.


Your request will probably never be implemented. If you got comments or =20
questions contact me in private. This bug report is now closed.

cheers,
Frans=20
frans.englich@telia.com

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Subject: don't compress the koffice files
From: charles@kde.org

Package:           bugs.kde.org
Version:           KDE 2.9.0 CVS/CVSup/Snapshot
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Compiled sources
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a) files at home are rarely shared

b) you can gzip a file manually

c) offices usually have ethernet, where a 100kb uncompressed file is reasonable

d) gzipping a file makes cvs and rcs almost completely useless

e) there's no point in further complicating a file.  Nobody compressed HTML files when they send them to friends, do they?

f) if there is a large image in the tar, gzipping it will take an eternity, and will yeild very little compression (considering everyone uses a png or jpeg anyway)

In other words, leave it as a plain tar file, which still can use cvs.

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