Re: FW: Smart-Art in Writer - Correct 'Import' approach ?

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:26:31PM +0300, Adam Fyne <adam.fyne@cloudon.com>
> wrote:
> > > > we would like to change this and show the user a *locked* bitmap of
> the
> > > > smart-art, that the user cannot manipulate (so that he can at least
> > > > preserve the original Smart-Art).
> > >
> > > What is the benefit of this, from a user's point of view?
> >
> > Because at this phase, we are not going to add logic to 'manipulate' the
> > Smart-Art object,
> > so if a user is allowed to changed the location of the shapes, and then
> > saves back the file - and opens it in Word -
> > he won't understand why his 'changes' to the shapes weren't persisted.
> > That's why we believe it is best to simply not allow any changes, because
> > they won't be persisted anyway.
>
> Hmm, when we discussed the InteropGrabBag idea in the ESC call, AIUI the
> proposed solution for the "attached unhandled meatada vs user editing"
> problem was to empty the InteropGrabBag in case the user edits the
> object in question:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-July/054428.html
>
> "invalidate on copy/mutate"
>
> This way, in case of no editing, the metadata is kept, in case of
> editing, the edited object is exported as a normal groupshape and the
> user's modifications win over the unhandled metadata.
>
> > The idea was to show a single pop-up for 'all Smart-Art' objects in the
> > file - asking
> > "do you want to convert the Smart-Art in this file to simple shapes (and
> > lose functionallity) or preserve the original Smart-Art objects ?"
>
> Ah, that sounds better. And then would you do this for all filters that
> may contain smartart: PPTX, DOCX, XLSX? (Not sure if we support smartart
> inside XLSX ATM.) If so, opinion from someone hacking Impress would be
> appreciated.

Currently - the scope of the work is for DOCX.


> Miklos



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