From koffice-devel  Mon Apr 20 15:23:12 2009
From: Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann () zagge ! de>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:23:12 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Explanation on the current inner working of the changeTracker
Message-Id: <200904201723.12667.t.zachmann () zagge ! de>
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On Monday 20 April 2009, Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Thorsten Zachmann 
<t.zachmann@zagge.de>wrote:
> > Hello Pierre,
> >
> > thanks for the detailed explanation. This helps to understand how it
> > might be
> > done. If I have understood the sec correctly this is a office:text
> > specific feature in the spec.
>
> Ah, I didn't realise this stuff was "word processor" specific. I thought it
> would apply to any "text frame" in an opendoc file. I find this limitation
> in the spec is really a shame. This is an additional limitation of the
> change tracking spec (on top of not saving the format change which
> happened, and just that a format change took place; the metadata planed for
> a change is limited to date, author and comment). I don't know how much we
> could influence the specs, but this section definitly needs some attention.
>

It is always possible to add stuff but it takes time.

> > Therefore the saving of that stuff should be done in
> > kword and not in koodf. Because you cannot use a office:body and a
> > office:text in there as that breaks all other apps. I think the simplest
> > would be to create the dataCenterMap for the change tracker only when a
> > document in kword is created and not in the TextShapeFactory. The
> > textshape should be able to use a change tracking if it is set but should
> > also be able
> > to not use it e.g. in other apps.
>
> But wouldn't it be interesting for KPresenter (for example) to have this
> feature for the text frames also?

For now I would say no. I would prefer to have the other stuff working better 
before starting on stuff like that.

> But then, the saving of it couldn't be done the same anyway.

No it could not. Is it possible to have a text-change of an embedded text 
frame in OO and not the main text frame?

...
> the <office:text> tag. That is why I moved the <office:text> tag opening.
> I'll have a further look into moving that stuff into a more proper place.

Thanks.

Thorsten
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