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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: discussion about "desktop-wide" text formatting
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-06-20 11:01:14
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 
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 
moving "down" in the software stacks, but the initial reactions on that 
thread gave me the impression that some people were serioulsy considering a 
new format, which would even add the need of implementing it first, not just 
refactoring code into a stand-alone library (which I am sure is also lots of 
work).

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

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

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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