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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Lotsa similar bugs related to excel import
From:       Tomas Mecir <mecirt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-01-29 16:34:16
Message-ID: 492258b10501290834364eaccb () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:49:17 +0100, Tim Beaulen <tbscope@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:05:53 +0100, Raphael Langerhorst
> <raphael-langerhorst@gmx.at> wrote:

> > > I'm therefore wondering, if it would be a good idea if I created
> > > one new bug report, where I would summarize all these existing
> > > reports, and then marked all those reports as duplicates of this
> > > new report.
> >
> > Well, IMHO it would be good to group the bugs in two or three bug
> > reports - if they can be separated/sorted that is. Otherwise just
> > throw them into one report - we can then reduce the list of issues
> > with replies to the bug report.
> Personally, I would like to see them seperated.
> Unless they talk about similar problems with the filter, then they can
> be joined, if all the original reports and conversation is kept.

Heh, so I got both possible answers ;) But i think that I will merge
the reports. The merged report will include numbers of the old bugs,
so storage of old conversations shouldn't be an issue.


> > > :)  But I feel like there are more important things to do than
> > > : this,
> >
> > I also think this currently. Filters are great, but a well working
> > application is more important.
> >
> 
> I think it's a combination of both :)

Well, maybe... But somehow, having a great filter is of little use if
you can't use the app afterwards ;)

> Haven't looked at the KSpread excel (ole) filters yet either, but I've
> been reading the OpenOffice documents about the MS excel file formats,
> and it's pretty complex.
> http://sc.openoffice.org/compdocfileformat.pdf
> http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf

Yup, excel format scares me a lot. But then, so does OASIS format. Umm...

/ Tomas
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