From koffice  Mon Jun 04 18:24:31 2001
From: Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:24:31 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Kword frames
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:21:05PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2001 18:55, Richard Bos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:40, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Thursday 31 May 2001 00:30, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > > Well, I believe this can best be 'fixed' by using ctrl-click to select
> > > > frames, even when not in frames-select mode.
> > > > ctrl-drag would then move the selected frames like alt-drag does for
> > > > kwin.
> > >
> > > Sounds very good to me, excellent idea.
> > > Then we can finally get rid of the corresponding menu items.
> > 
> > This works nice indeed.  How shoud/can I add a picture description under the 
> > picture and how can the picture be numbered (e.g fig 1.2).
> 
> At the moment there's no direct way to do that (I mean, no specific feature),
> so you have to use a text frame...
> 
> > I made a screenshot, edited it with gimp.  Inserted (F7) it into kword.
> > It didn't look nice so I decided to edit (make it smaller) the previously 
> > inserted picture and inserted it again in kword.  However, the initial 
> > picture (bigger one) was inserted(!) and the one I edited, tho I know for 
> > sure that the edited picture was selected (preview in file dialog, pixie, 
> > etc).  After a copy of the picture to a new name and inserting that one, the 
> > picture was okay.
> > -rw-r--r--   1 richard  users       15665 jun  4 18:14 desktoppager.jpg
> > -rw-r--r--   1 richard  users       15665 jun  4 18:30 desktoppagernew.jpg
> > 
> > It seems that kword keeps a buffer for pictures, is that possible?
> 
> Yes, very much so. There's an image collection, and when you delete
> the image it doesn't get removed from the collection since it's still in
> the undo/redo history.
> Somehow we need to distinguish the new image as a different one.
> Simon: I guess this is the reason for the timestamp stuff in KPresenter.....

Ahh, that seems to be the case.

> Do you see a way to fix this ?

Use a timestamp in kword, too? :-)

It should probably only be a matter of taking the same key as in kpresenter,
adjusting the loading/save code and providing fallbacks for the old file
format.

Bye,
 Simon