From koffice-devel  Wed May 30 12:34:29 2001
From: Werner Trobin <trobin () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:34:29 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: KPresenter sloooooww...
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99122633816746

David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 12:56, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > Would it be possible not to call completeSaving (XML + images)
> > in the common case but just saving the XML? The app could "tell"
> > KoDocument that it has to save completely e.g. after inserting
> > or removing images/parts/cliparts/...
> > This could be implemented in a BC way, and we can make it default
> > to the safe variant (completeSaving).
> 
> That sounds good... but if the app crashes, and we offer to load the auto-saved file,
> it will only have the XML ....... so somehow we'd have to go pick up the pictures
> and embedded objects in the real document instead ? That sounds a bit harder to
> do, already.

Ehrm, no. I meant to open the existing storage and just replace
the root entry. That way we still have the whole backup in one
file.

> > Saving the XML in KPresenter takes a lot less than a second even
> > on reasoably large presentations... maybe we should have a progress
> > bar (like in MS Office) for that.
> 
> You mean, using the standard progress bar ? If KPresenter emits the signals
> (does it?) then it's simply a matter of connecting them (as you did in so many
> other places ;-)

Well, it doesn't do that right now. My TODO gets longer and longer,
but after this month... :)))

> > By doing that and by providing a common config dialog to configure
> > the timeout we could "fix" that IMHO.
> 
> It's hard to provide a common config if we want the config dialogs to look
> like the current kword and kspread ones (kdialogbase with iconlist).
> What would we factorize ? One kintnuminput ? :) Doesn't look worth it.

Hehe, okay :)

Ciao,
Werner

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Werner Trobin - trobin@kde.org
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