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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Google Online document Plugin for KOffice
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-07-02 20:16:57
Message-ID: 201007022216.57815.zander () kde ! org
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On Friday 2. July 2010 12.53.17 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2010, Mani N C wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I have implemented a plugin for KOffice, which would download documents
> > from Google Docs server and open it with KWord/KPresenter/KSpread.
> > ATM we won't be able to use this plugin because of a bug in Google Docs.
> > which doesn't export the document in the correct format.
> > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2023 Though it is
> > not working now, I have tested it with lot of documents earlier.
> > 
> > All Word document will be downloaded as ODT and spreadsheets are
> > downloaded as ODS. Now they do not support ODP, So we download it as PPT
> > format. UI is still in the initial phase need some more effort to make
> > it more user friendly. I am planning to implement upload and delete
> > feature in future.
> > 
> > Your suggestions/comments are welcome. If no one has any objection
> > against this plugin, I will commit the code to SVN
> 
> I really would like to see this committed :-)

Having this in svn or git is certainly good, would love to see this too.

I don't really mind where this goes really, just wanted to take this 
opportunity to bring up the way that I've seen this handled in Plasma, the 
plugins are developed in a staging area and when they are of sufficient quality 
they are released together with the rest of the plugins.

The reason I bring this up is that we are getting more and more plugins in our 
main repository that don't actually pass our main criteria for release. The 
vector shape can't save yet as an example.

Having an official staging area for the various new koffice plugins may be a really 
nice thing to have so developers get more testing and help, and we can make 
some rules on when to include the plugins into the main repo and include them 
in the main release.

Opinions?
-- 
Thomas Zander
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