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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Adding a new filter status
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-07-17 5:30:18
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:30:36PM +0200, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Sonntag, 14. Juli 2002 10:33, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 03:54:13PM +1000, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 06:48, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> (...)
> >
> > What about an extra table cell that has a 'completed' bar in there.
> > Expressed in percents.  This way you don't have to downgrade certain
> > filters (never underestimate the psycologocal effects of that!).
> 
> It unfotunately does not solve the problem that we have with the MS Word 
> filter. For Word 97 documents, it works well. For Word XP, it seems to have 
> problems. So you would still have to downgrade something even on a "complete" 
> bar.

Hmm, I think you misunderstood me.

With downgrading I meant to make it lower then it was before.  In the case of
the percentile progress you can't downgrade since there was no former value.

> And you will get this problem with any file format that evolves.
> 
> Otherwise, yes, you are right, downgrades have to be avoided. That is why I 
> have downgraded nearly all "good" labels to "working" at once, to avoid that 
> further user critics force us to downgrade them filter by filter.

Overall I think you are taking the labels and percentile too serious (I am mostly
talking about your second mail here), the only reason I proposed it was to show
without an external reference-chart what a certain name stands for. So it would
be nothing more then;

    alfa  - 10%
    beta  - 25%
    good  - 50%
      :     :
    complete - 98%

I don't think it makes any sense to change the filter status after a reworking
of the internal file-format of KWord, as long as it is fixed before the release
nobody will be the wiser.

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Thomas Zander                                           zander@planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be

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