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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Embedding
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-09-15 8:17:17
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
>
>> ... will be my next task, of course.
>> Something 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 ?
>
>Opinion? Excellent!! :-) "Insert" makes more user sense.

Ok, I still prefer tools. Then tell me how to do following: If everything goes
from tools to insert (which I will only do if I get some more good arguments,
I'm not convinced yet), there is still the edit-tool or how it is called (the
icon with the mouse cursor, you use this tool for moving/resizing/selecting/...
objects). This of course can't be moved to insert. So this would stay alone in
tools which is not acceptable (only one menuitem/toolbaritem in the tools menu
is stupid). So what todo with this tool.

>> (I'm posting this now in order to let some time to reach a decision.
>> Meanwhile, I'll try to actually fix embedding :))
>
>While using KPresenter extensively lately, I learned to love KOffice even
>more than kwm/kpanel/multihead :-) On thing I largely hate about ms office
>is the *high* inconsistency of look and feel among members apps. 
>
>Hey, don't look at me like this. Just try to format the indenting (using
>the ruler bar) in ms word and in ms powerpoint and you'll understand what
>I mean.
>
>What is the chance/feasability to make 90% of KOffice functionality a
>library tool, thus common to all apps?

If you talk about inconsistency between KWord and KPresenter's textobject: No,
they are so different and things (like indent) are handled very different. But
I can't see so much inconsistence between these apps.

-- 
Reggie

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