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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    [Bug 55092] Koffice should be able to embed any kpart
From:       Alan Horkan <horkana () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date:       2005-08-26 11:57:52
Message-ID: 20050826115752.23958.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From horkana maths tcd ie  2005-08-26 13:57 -------
> difficult to exchange

Depending on how you look at it this is a feature not a bug and doing it will only \
encourage other applications to improve their compatibility (and the LGPL licensing \
of Koffice makes this quite practical even for proprietary software, in theory the \
whole of Koffice could be embedded as some form of plugin).   I'm not a fan of \
lock-in either but I think it is more useful to make things possible than setting \
arbitrary limitations.  (Wouldn't it be great to be able to embed video files in a \
presentation and avoid messy switching between applications?  Seems like a fairly \
common use case to me.) Certainly though if this feature were to be implemented \
developers would need to be careful to present it in such a way that users were not \
shocked and suprised by the limitations particularly with regard to document \
exchange.  There are things that could be done to limit breakage like embedding a \
preview/fallback image and  finding ways to make the content a little more generic \
(ie embedding MathML rather than embedding the KPart for KFormula, or embedding SVG \
instead of embedding the Karbon KPart, or embedding a movie file instead of a \
specific movie player.  I dont know the details of how exactly it would work but I am \
confident the developers can find a reasonable compromise.) 

First make it possible, then make it better.
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