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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Meeting minutes for the 13 February
From:       Jos van den Oever <Jos.van.den.Oever () kogmbh ! com>
Date:       2010-02-18 7:01:47
Message-ID: 201002180801.48162.Jos.van.den.Oever () kogmbh ! com
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On Thursday 18 February 2010 05:28:35 Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tuesday 16 February 2010 09:44:53 David Mills wrote:
> > The class stencil has sevral particularities that make it interesting:
> > -It can be linked via sevral different types of linkers to other elements
> > (class or interface)
> > -It has sevral text zones that need to be filled in independantly (Name,
> > Properties, Methods) and each element has sevral qualifiers
> > (protected/public/private/virtual/final...)
> > 
> > This makes it probably the most complicated stencil to support, and I
> > want to support it without any hacks (all code must be in the general
> > stencil plugin without custome cases to handle this stencil).
> > 
> > Like I said, I still don't know where I'm going on this, but I'm pretty
> > sure that it'll be fairly complicated to get done right. Loading and
> > saving to odf (which isn't really stencil aware) is adding another layer
> > to this problem.
> 
> I think there are at least two possibilities to get the loading saving
> done.
> 
> 1. Custom shapes ODF 9.6.1 <draw:custom-shape>
> 2. Frames ODF draw:frame
> 
> Each of those have benefits and drawbacks.
> 
> For 1:
> Custom shapes are defined in ODF 9.6 Custom Shape. They might be enough for
> easy shapes which are only made out of paths. All the same color and so on.
> It is most likely that they can be loaded with other apps right out the
> box
> 
> For 2:
> Frames are stored like 9.4 Frames. A stencil could be saved also in a
> frame. It then contain its own format which is not bound to odf. It is
> also possible to have e.g. svg and image representations of the frame to
> allow other odf compatible applications to show the shapes even if they
> don't support the format directly. That is e.g. how the music shape is
> stored.

I'd like to add that there is work planned to be done this spring for 
improving the SVG rendering and improving the use of SVG as a fallback image 
for frame contents from a different namespace such as the music shape.

Cheers,
Jos

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