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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Get Started (was: Re: The "Killer" application])
From:       Clarence Dang <dang () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-27 6:55:38
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 02:07 am, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 00:32, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 05:28 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > > > I'd like to see something a bit different.
> > >
> > > I'd like to have 30 more KOffice developers.
> >
> > Any pointers on how to get started? :)  KOffice seems like a rather large
> > beast. ;)
>
> It is indeed difficult to tell where to start.
>
Nicolas, you forgot to mention your own tutorial! :P
http://www.koffice.org/developer/generalinfo/

> As we will probably need many people for converting the filters helping us
> here could be interesting for the whole project.
>
Yes, filters are the real weak point of KOffice (KWord especially).  We 
certainly need more people with attention to detail.  Hopefully the move to 
the OOo Writer format will mean that we can get rid of disasterous 
limitations like non-inline [1] frames not being exported at all (because 
currently, the filters don't know where they're located so can't sensibly put 
them anywhere).

KOffice unfreezes in about a week or two so I guess real filter porting work 
will start in a couple of months.

Cheers,
Clarence

[1] I used to call them "floating" but after looking in the source code, 
apparently "floating" == "inline" !

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