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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: New Kivio maintainer
From:       Peter Simonsson <psn () linux ! se>
Date:       2003-01-20 21:46:13
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On Monday 20 January 2003 18.54, Patrick Julien wrote:
> On January 20, 2003 10:15 am, rwlbuis@xs4all.nl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > >> As I'm converting Kivio from its internal lib TKLib to KOffice libs
> > >> head
> > >
> > > If you are looking to remove the TKlib dependecy on KivioRuler and
> > > KivioGuide,
> > > this is already done.  KoCanvasGuide and KoCanvasRuler in lib/kopainter
> >
> >  What exactly is the difference between KoCanvasRuler and KoRuler? The
> > latter seems to have much more functionality, any possibility to merge
> > them? Cheers,
>
> Now that kivio uses KoRuler, I wanted to revisit this again... however
> kivio hangs on startup for me.
>
> Originally, when I wanted to add guides to Krita, Kivio rulers seemed like
> the way to go.  They supported more types of measures (no longer true it
> seems), furthermore the placing of the text looked more "spiffy" when
> zooming out to say something like 1/16.
>
> Again, I only compared the rulers when using KWord vs Kivio.  It's quite
> possible KoRuler supports more options for text layout.
>
> It seemed to me that KoRuler looked better for applications whose contents
> are text while koCanvasRuler for those who weren't.
>
> Another thing that bottered me with a vertical KoRuler, (again this is
> based on observations of KWord, it doesn't mean it holds true for KoRuler)
> was that text was displayed horizontally.
>
As a workaround remove the file ~/.kde/share/apps/kivio/globalconfig
-- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson

Kexi - http://luci.bux.at/projects/kexi/
KLCC (KDE LineControl Client) - http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/

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