On Tuesday, February 02, 2016 02:08:53 PM Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 23:20, Pierre <pina...@pinaraf.info> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Right now, when we create a new empty document (at least for words), like > > any > > other office suite, it is created from a template. But we currently lack > > the > > reset of some metadata from our templates, leading to funny situations… For > > instance, any document created by calligra using the A4 template is more > > than > > 7 years old :) > > > > We have several possible fix : > > - strip metadata from templates : we would still copy the metadata for user > > templates, including creation date, bad imho > > - strip all metadata when creating a file from template : bad too, users > > could > > have specific metadata they don't want to lose > > - override specific metadata like the creation date with sane values > > > > Each one is very simple to implement, I just don't know which one is the > > best. > > I would go for the third option, but I don't have a list of metadata to > > erase. > > (we already override the generator BTW, but elsewhere in the saving code) > > > > Any thoughts on this ? > > Very interesting finding > , Pierre. > If you ask me, the 3rd option looks best. Documenting the new behaviour, > whatever it is, in the API docs, would be useful.
I just went through the ODF 1.2 spec part regarding metadata, I think we should reset all the meta data defined in the spec except "meta:user-defined"… And remember to fill in the meta:template with the XLink to the source template. If nobody disagrees nor sees anything hazardous in it, I'll implement that.
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