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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OpenDocument as default?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-01-09 20:32:51
Message-ID: 200601092132.51892.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 09 January 2006 18:31, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Yay, more configuration...
> > Honestly, I don't see the point, at least for KWord.
> 
> Well, we've had a couple of people, users, around who were asking for such
> a thing. People might also want to use rtf by default in KWord, or psd in Krita.
> (Well, they'd be mad to want that, but that has never stopped anyone.)
> 
> > Saving in .kwd has no advantage over saving in .odt - if it does, that's a bug,
> > and before we fix that bug the user *can* save *that* document in .kwd, but
> > that's no reason to switch the default format.
> >
> > I want the old formats to die over time, offering people to use them *by default*
> > sounds like a move in the wrong direction.
> 
> Well, there are more file formats, but in principle I agree with you. It's just
> that I can see the point of people who want that option.

I was certainly not including non-native formats as a possibility for a default
format. That would be 1000 times more insane.

I suggest to stick to native formats in this discussion (I think this was also
the sense of Gabor's suggestion), we certainly don't want make data loss so easy.

-- 
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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