From koffice  Tue Jul 25 12:42:31 2000
From: Werner Trobin <wtrobin () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:42:31 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Filter for Gnumeric-files
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=96452897800763

Gerold Neuwirt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> as far as I can see won't it be possible that all the filters you are
> discussing in the mailing list will be completely finished before the
> KDE2.0 release. Also the ms-word filter wont't be perfect. One could
> wait until the 2.1 release for the next update but I guess that some of
> the filters had already a big improvement during that time. Will it be
> possible to download these filters as a module to update or include them
> after the release when they are ready or had a remarkable improvement?

The filter architecture just dlopens a filter library - from a
technical POV we could ship a new/imporved filter every day :)
The users just have to download and install them - the rest works
automatically (updating and detection of new filters).

-- 
Werner Trobin - wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com