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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Experiences with KWord 1.2.1 (KDE3.1)
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-02-21 19:12:54
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On Friday 21 February 2003 19:54, shaheed wrote:
> On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 10:57 am, David Faure wrote:
> > Many many people find the msword way very clumsy - me included.
> > As soon as you add a paragraph above, your drawing objects move in a more
> > or less random way (I guess because they get automatically anchored to
> > different paragraphs/characters). The inlining mechanism looks very hackish
> > to me in MSWord, generally.
> 
> I agree with David here. The only viable answer I could see is to take 
> advantage of the underlying frame structure to implement layers, and to use 
> embedding of Karbon within the (lower or upper) layered frame.

Layering is already implemented, in the sense that frames have a "Z order".

> Although it is still a little sucky in that the user has to take care of 
> positioning the graphical elements manually, s/he can do that without 
> interfering with the text.

Hmm, some inlining should be possible though - people want to associate
drawings with text...

> So, anyone fancy a hack to allow a (floating?) KWord frame to have a 
> transparent background?

Transparent frames are already supported BTW.
 
- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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