This would be excellent. The filters have so many ugly solutions trying to work around this issue currently.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> wrote: > Forwarding an excerpt from the thread with my conclusion for the near > future: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mirek M. <maz...@gmail.com> > Date: 14 March 2013 00:25 > > Sorry for the late response -- I promise I will have the Engineering > Steering Committee's answer for you tomorrow. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> > Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM > Subject: Re: Themes > To: "Mirek M." <maz...@gmail.com> > Cc: kendy <ke...@novell.com>, Thorsten Behrens <tbehr...@novell.com> > > Hi Mirek, > > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 20:33 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > > I wasn't able to attend today's ESC call and the minutes were quite > > vague, so I'd like to clear a few things up. For context, I'm quoting > > the relevant part of Jaroslaw Staniek's message: > > Yep - so - my hope would be that around June we will have 3x > interns > inside SUSE one of whom may be interested in working on this - indeed we > could sketch that out. > > > The code for Themes has not landed in > > Calligra only because of not-the-highest-priority but since > > then I > > heard encouraging comments and no disagreement so we shall > > finally > > have them. If this fits LibreOffice plans we can co-develop > > the > > design/specifications so we'll be compatible (e.g. we can > > share theme > > [..] > there is no problem in collaborating around file-formats and the > specification thereof etc. > Clearly a major focus of what we do needs to be round-trip > interoperability - so we can load/save these to MS formats with no data > loss. > > > files and properly embed them in documents/templates, staying > > backward-compatible with not-theme-aware software). In > > addition to > > defining some extensions to ODF, the specs would be in large > > part > > related to behaviour of the applications. I also hope some > > relevant functional/unit tests could be shared. > > Sounds reasonable. > > > As a first step I propose a common wiki page (is there neutral > > one or would you accept Calligra Wiki?) > > I don't actually care where the spec. is developed / discussed. > > > Are we interested in working together on a spec? > > What kind of UI/design work would this require up front? > > As for the UI design - then, yes - it would be great to a) get the > results of the Calligra thoughts already - hopefully they've done a good > compatibility analysis; and b) to get a UI design to see this integrated > into LibreOffice nicely. > > So - yes, it's certainly worth putting some effort into this - > Kendy - > do you think we could persuade one intern to work on this ? > > Thoughts ? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> > Date: 16 March 2013 09:54 > Subject: Re: Theme colors > To: "Mirek M." <maz...@gmail.com> > > Thanks for the update. Yes, round-trip with MSOOXML is one > requirement, though backward compatibility with ODF 1.2 or older (and > thus, DOC) is important too, and can be achieved by by copying theme > items into actual styles. > > As for the schedule, there's nothing precise because the feature while > important ... it's absence does not stop users from actually being > productive. > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org > Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel >
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