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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Persistant filter settings - dialog only pops up once
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-02-14 10:59:23
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On Friday 14 February 2003 11:44, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:26 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > On Friday 14 February 2003 10:43, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > > > BTW, do we really have to pop up KFileDialog the first time the user
> > > > > is trying to File/Save (if s/he opened a foreign document), because
> > > > > it makes KWord _very_ hard and awkward to work with...
> > >
> > > And I would appreciate feedback on this proposal too since it's _really_
> > > annoying me :(  I would really like to get rid of it...
> >
> > Imagine people who import a text file, then format it, use tons
> > of bold, italic, colors, styles, headers, footers ... then they click save,
> > and quit, and the next time they reopen their document ... it's all gone,
> > since they saved as plain text, into the .txt ...
> But isn't there already a warning about this: "File Export: Confirmation 
> Required"?
Isn't that during "Save As" only?

> There is nothing worse than popping up yet another dialog where I 
> have to retype the filename and reselect the file type.  It makes using 
> foreign file formats like RTF painful :(

I think this is where we have to separate two notions:
* working with a foreign file format (using load and save in that format)
* importing a file and then working on a native .kwd document later on.

This distinction isn't really in the formats themselves (some people might
do a one-time import of RTF, others might work with RTF as "native").

Maybe we should have Import and Export menu items, to distinguish the
two ways?

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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