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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KPresenter and autosave (Re: KPresenter NOT sloooooww... :) )
From:       Toshitaka Fujioka <toshitaka () kde ! gr ! jp>
Date:       2001-05-30 15:30:52
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On Wednesday 30 May 2001 21:19, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 14:34, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah, very clever ;)
> So KoDocument makes a "cp", and then calls saveXML .... Hehe, this shows
> the power of the kofficecore design ! No change needed in any app. Wow, I
> like it :)
>
> Of course this means that if an app crashes while the user was editing an
> embedded object (for e.g. 20 minutes), the autosave file will have none of
> the changes done to the embedded object ! :(
>
> Maybe we could save the root document and any child docs, but skip any
> images ?
>
> > 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 :)
>
> So what we need is for someone to add this config to kpresenter's configure
> dialog. Toshitaka ? :))
> (You can steal code from KWord or KSpread for that).

OK, I try. ;-)
I have one question.
Do contents of "Settings->Options..." let move to 
"Settings->Configure KPresenter..." ?

Thank you.

-- 
Toshitaka Fujioka
http://www.kde.org                The K Desktop Environment Project
                                                    fujioka@kde.org
http://www.kde.gr.jp               Japan KDE User's Group
                                                    toshitaka@kde.gr.jp

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