From koffice-devel  Mon Feb 24 11:04:49 2003
From: David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:04:49 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: A killer app for KOffice/KDE?
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On Monday 24 February 2003 00:59, shaheed wrote:
> On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 9:37 am, M. Fioretti wrote:
> ...
> > Said this, locking, or at least really bothering users with
> > uncompatible file formats used to be one of the most distinguishing
> > features of proprietary SW. May I ask you why one common file format
> > between OOo, KOffice, and other products would be not desirable?
> 
> Sure. I think this assumes that ANYONE has actually got a design paradigm 
> which covers all word processor programs. For example, IIRC, OO inherits the 
> page-oriented approach of MS Word: how would one fit KWord into that?

KWord knows about pages too. And OO knows about text frames too.
I see nothing that prevents using the same *file format*. Note that
file format doesn't mean that both programs have to be designed the same
way, nor work the same way. It's "just" a matter of modelling the saved data
the same way.

> P.S. In case I am doing the OASIS file formats a disservice with regard to 
> frames, I bet one could find a hundred other such differences in thinking.

And my goal is to find a way to unite all this into a single file format.
Please voice any such "differences" you may find after reading the
description of both file formats - I'm sure it can all be solved in due course.

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions

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