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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Bugs in OOo and compatibility issues
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2009-02-24 7:43:11
Message-ID: 200902240843.11398.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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Bug 185354 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185354) is about a bug that 
introduces an incompatibility with OpenOffice.org.  The bug itself is in OOo, 
in the way that it saves its files, no doubt about that.

However, the nature of the bug is such that if we don't work around it, then 
we can just forget about anybody that ever saved a presentation in OO Impress 
to ever use KPresenter. Yes, it's that bad.

I would like to discuss how to handle this.  In general I don't think we 
should encourage buggy files by supporting the bugginess in our application.  
But in this case, we can't just ignore it IMHO.

The market for ODF applications right now is OOo, then comes nothing, then 
comes nothing, etc ^10, then maybe comes Google apps with crappy ODF support, 
and far behind that comes KOffice.  If we don't make allowances for OOo at 
this time, then we can just stop development right here and now.

Of course this doesn't mean that we shouldn't make a fuss about it and allow 
them to continue saving in buggy format.  We should save in the correct way 
ourselves.

Comments?

	-Inge
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