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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord status
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-11-29 16:57:28
Message-ID: 200411291757.29373.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 29 November 2004 17:42, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> Am Montag, 29. November 2004 11:21 schrieb David Faure:
> > On Sunday 28 November 2004 13:43, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 26. November 2004 01:35 schrieb David Faure:
> > > > On Thursday 11 November 2004 20:55, Tapio Kautto wrote:
> > > > > Hello world.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been doing and preparing some KWord testing.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've collected information about implementation and load/save status
> > > > > of KWords basic features. The result is in KDE Wiki,
> > > > > http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Status+of+KWord
> > > > >
> > > > > I've also done some actual testing with KWord CVS. Everything basic
> > > > > seems to work pretty well exept one strange error: OpenOffice.org
> > > > > 1.9.60 does not read .oot -file written with KWord! This might be
> > > > > error in OO.org also, it's unstable development version after all.
> > > >
> > > > It's too early to test interoperability. OO-1.9.60 and KOffice use
> > > > different mimetypes and extensions, and apparently the name of the
> > > > mimetypes and the extensions are about to change again.
> > >
> > > Will the OO.org beta contain the final mimetypes?
> >
> > No idea - the final mimetypes are only just about to be voted on, and I
> > have no idea when that "beta" goes out.
> The OO.org 2.0 beta comes out next week, i think.

I just asked and got a yes - it will have the final list (which was decided today).
I'm about to make KOffice use them too.

> > > > For now I suggest to rather test if old->oasis->old preserves the whole
> > > > information. For KWord I wrote kword/tests/oasis.sh. The same could
> > > > be done with the other applications.
> > >
> > > The script shows a really strange behavior here. The resulting
> > > oasisregtest-final.kwd is internally a oasis document.
> >
> > Really? dcop $appid Document-0 setOutputMimeType "application/x-kword"
> > is supposed to ask for kword mimetype before saving to final.kwd... No idea
> > why that would fail for you (any chance you can debug koDocument?)
> I could solve the problem by using sleep 5 after loading of the oasis file. 
Hmm, weird. We have to find where the race condition comes from.

> Quite big differences though.
Yes, I know.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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