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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KDE, QT & UTF8
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-06-19 10:04:16
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:51, Bharathi S wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > Nice. So any change in QT lib will give a imd result in KDE app. 
> > 
> > In KDE, but not in KOffice, since it's a *fork* (i.e. our own
> > modified copy). However Lars said he would give a hand at updating
> > our copy (KoRichText) with the necessary stuff (otherwise I'll have
> > a look at it, once Qt-3.2 is out)
> 
> :-O, KOffice is using it's own libs. Grrrrrr.... 
Please keep your "Grrrr" for yourself, I spent countless hours on adding
all that was needed for KOffice... Guess how KOffice text editing has all
those features?

> I thought KOffice Libs is providing a front end for QT widgets like file dialog etc.
The KDE file dialog is in KDE libs.

But koffice's libkotext provides WYSIWYG text editing, as well as many
other features which Qt doesn't offer (strikeout, background color, underline types,
language, shadow, lower/upper/smallcaps, hyphenation ; paragraph borders,
the 4 types of tabulators, the new linespacing possibilities, etc.)

The richtext engine in Qt is private anyway, we can't use it directly.

> Both libs are completely independent ??
No.

We currently use the font and painting mechanism from Qt.
Only the text layouting engine is separate.
But this might change in the future (see long thread on koffice-devel)

> OR once the QT become stable 
> then the QT libs will be updated with new KOffice libs.
The other way round, but yes.

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