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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: printing extension (was Re: kohtml)
From:       Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-04-02 14:09:00
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, David Faure wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Kevin Forge wrote:
> > 
> > > Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On the one hand I'd like to get rid of kohtml due to it's bad design, but
> > > > > OTOH I still want to be able to embedd html sites in KWord, for example.
> > > > 
> > > > It's not even that, I'd like the ability to use a smallish working web
> > > > browser.  konqy doesn't work under wmaker.  kohtml sorta did at one time.
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't it be simpler to make Cortez work under WM than to make kohtml
> > > a real browser ?
> > 
> > That's exactly what I wanted to say. There is already a nice browser (or
> > at least there will be ;) ) . And if we would be able to use Konqueror as
> > browser in KOffice this would bring lots of advantages (IMHO) . For
> > example let's say KDVI is able to provide a konqueror view plugin, with
> > which one is able to view DVI files inside the browser. Beside that this
> > is useful for Konqueror as is, it would be also nice for KOffice, because
> > then one could embed a DVI view into it's KWord document view for example.
> 
> 
> Simon, this is going nowhere. If one wants a DVI view in a KWord document,
> it must be possible to do it directly, not using konqueror (which is
> basically a file manager, remember !)

Ah, you're right. Thanks for reminding me, I was very wrong. Sorry for
that trouble.
 
> About HTML docs, one expects to be able to edit them, in an office
> suite. konqueror isn't the good place for it, but kohtml isn't either. We
> need a real HTML editor for that (did somebody said he was going to work on 
> this ? kwebmaker ?)

I agree. So I'll kill kohtml sooner or later, that's the best IMO. Viewing
html documents will then be the second job of a real html editor 
application.


Ciao,
   Simon

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