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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Bugs in OOo and compatibility issues
From:       Alexandra Leisse <leisse () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-02-24 8:42:01
Message-ID: f46093a70902240042g413f6ec6r56c9be62071d4759 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hej!

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:43, Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> Bug 185354 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185354) is about a bug that
> introduces an incompatibility with OpenOffice.org.  The bug itself is in OOo,
> in the way that it saves its files, no doubt about that.
>
> However, the nature of the bug is such that if we don't work around it, then
> we can just forget about anybody that ever saved a presentation in OO Impress
> to ever use KPresenter. Yes, it's that bad.
>
> I would like to discuss how to handle this.  In general I don't think we
> should encourage buggy files by supporting the bugginess in our application.
> But in this case, we can't just ignore it IMHO.
>
> The market for ODF applications right now is OOo, then comes nothing, then
> comes nothing, etc ^10, then maybe comes Google apps with crappy ODF support,
> and far behind that comes KOffice.  If we don't make allowances for OOo at
> this time, then we can just stop development right here and now.

Sounds very harsh, but I agree. I don't see any way around that. Apart
maybe from fixing the bug in OOo...

> Of course this doesn't mean that we shouldn't make a fuss about it and allow
> them to continue saving in buggy format.  We should save in the correct way
> ourselves.

If you do so will it still be possible to open the file correctly in
(buggy) OOo? It would be rather annoying for many people otherwise,
wouldn't it?

Alexandra
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