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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Embedding
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-09-14 22:17:42
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
>... will be my next task, of course.
>SSomething I noticed is that the way the user can embed objects from
>another koffice apps is VERY different from one app to another.
>I think this should made consistent.
>kspread has a submenu in "Edit", and tells about objects
>kpresenter has common ones + "Objects" in the Tools menu
>  (is a KWord doc a tool ? :)
>kword tells about creating Frames, has the common ones and the generic one
>is called "Parts".
>
>This is not dumb criticism, because I am also going to change it :)
>I'd just like to know which way is preferred.
>(I dislike kspread's submenu, so I would rather go for the kpresenter way,
>but I'd prefer the "Insert" menu rather than the "Tools" menu)
>Opinions ?

I think it makes sense to be a tool, at least in KPresenter and KWord. Because
in both apps you use tools to insert an object. And you use the insert-part
tool in KPresenter to embed another part and the insert-part tool in KWord to
insert a frame with an embedded part. You also use e.g. the insert-rect tool to
insert a rectangle in KPresenter or the insert-textframe tool to insert another
textframe in KWord.

Now I already hear somebody saying: "But inserting pictures and cliparts in
KPresenter is done using the insert menu". This has a reason: With a tool you
specify the position of the size of the new object which should be inserted
(with making a rectangle with the mouse). If you insert a picture or a clipart
in KPresenter you can't do that, because the initial size == original size and
can't be specified by the user. So you don't have a tool to insert it, but you
can just insert it.

Yes, I know in KWord inserting a pixmap is again a tool, but there it is also
done differently (in a way which is not good for KPresenter).

So, I actually did think about insert vs. tool a bit as you can see :-))

To sum it up: A tool is used if you "draw" a rectangle or whatever to insert
the object, insert is used if it is just put somewhere on the page.

-- 
Reggie

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