From koffice-devel  Fri Jun 20 11:01:14 2008
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:14 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: discussion about "desktop-wide" text formatting
Message-Id: <200806201301.15159.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
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On Thursday 19 June 2008, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 18. June 2008 21:48:24 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > over at the main discussion list of freedesktop.org there is a thread [=
1]
> > about text formatting, mainly in the context of Copy&Paste operations.
> >
> > After some thinkgin I suggested OpenDocument so I thought some of you
> > might be interested in participating as well.
>
> My intention is indeed to make the ODf support such that more and more
> applications will copy/paste ODF by default (as well as plain text and
> maybe html).

I am totally looking forward to that, especially for doing table based I/O =
in=20
anything better than CSV.

> This is a pure technical problem, the right libraries should be available
> before apps can do this.
> I don't really see the connection with the stated problem and xdg.
>
> Thanks for your email there! :)

I agree that it is mainly a technical problem, i.e. ODF libraries=20
moving "down" in the software stacks, but the initial reactions on that=20
thread gave me the impression that some people were serioulsy considering a=
=20
new format, which would even add the need of implementing it first, not jus=
t=20
refactoring code into a stand-alone library (which I am sure is also lots o=
f=20
work).

My updated impression is that the transfer format or the lack of a common o=
ne=20
is seen as the cause for copy&paste problems, while judging from my=20
experience it is more likely caused by application developers not handling=
=20
the clipboard correctly/optimally.

Anyway, if none of you is subscribed at the xdg list but you find=20
misconceptions regarding ODF when reading the thread through the archives,=
=20
let me know and I'll post clarifications.

Cheers,
Kevin
=2D-=20
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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