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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Substitute for the MSOOXML concept of Comments
From:       Carlos Licea <carlos_licea () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-14 18:59:14
Message-ID: 201007141301.33581.carlos_licea () hotmail ! com
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Hello list,

In our tireless quest against bugs I've been entrusted to solve bug 239476 BKO 
(from bugs.kde.org - BKO,) namely, "kpresenter:msoffice2003:Comments are not 
displayed in kpresenter."

In MSOOXML such comments are represented as another file that is tied to the 
proper slide through a relationship. A comment is merely a textbox placed in 
the document with the comment as its content and some added metadata (mainly 
the author, date and id of the comment) that is hidden while on presentation 
mode (in the implementation MS2007 changes this a bit showing a small 
rectangle instead of the whole textbox, showing it only when clicked.) I feel 
that its main purpose is for the revision of a presentation while being 
created. A very simple concept.

But I'm facing a problem: I haven't been able to find an exact semantic 
equivalent to this concept in ODF. The closest is presentation:notes which 
allows one to draw a "notes" page where we could place the notes as they exist 
on the PPTX file. However, it has some drawbacks, to name the most prominent: 
1)the metadata would be lost unless we insert it on the form of text inside a 
textbox; 2)the concepts are not quite the same, notes are snips of text that 
explain or expand concepts, or even recommend further reading for the 
audience; and overall we are doing nothing more than replacing a specific 
concept (Comments) with a more general one (the creation of a Notes page,) 
hence losing some context.

I haven't founded a better approach, so, this is the approach I've taken and 
which I'll commit in a couple of hours. However, I want to ask, do you have 
any other proposals or ideas to better solve this problem?

Thanks,
-- 
Carlos Licea
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