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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Bugs in OOo and compatibility issues
From:       jaham () gmx ! net
Date:       2009-02-24 19:17:57
Message-ID: 200902242017.57765.jaham () gmx ! net
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On Tuesday 24 February 2009 08:43:11 Inge Wallin 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Comments?

My opinion is that we should stick to the spec and not copy buggy behaviour of  
OOo.  I mean we are implementing odf support and not copy an application. That 
is probably more painful at the moment, but better for the longterm future. 

Ciao Jan

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