broken filters in words

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 02 December 2011 09:32:56 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> In Words, the following filters are broken because they convert to/from the
> old kwd format which was removed. They are still installed, though, and
> appear in the file dialog as options (and then don't work...)
> 
> palmdocexport
> palmdocimport
> wmlexport
> wmlimport
> oowriterexport
> oowriterimport
> mswriteimport
> mswriteexport
> docbookexport
> wpimport
> wpexport
> rtfexport
> asciiexport
> amiproexport
> amiproimport
> htmlexport
> abiwordimport
> abiwordexport
> lateximport
> latexport
> starwriterimport
> htmlimport
> dcmimport
> 
> At the very least, we shouldn't install them -- but should we compile them
> at all? Should the code even remain in the repositories? We've seen with
> doc, rtf and html that if we want to reinstate support for broken file
> formats, that we usually rewrite the complete filter
> 
> 
> Some of the broken formats, like ms-write are also listed in Words' desktop
> file:
> 
> MimeType=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text;application/vnd.oasis.open
> document.text-template;application/msword;application/rtf;text/plain;applic
> ation/x-mswrite;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessin
> gml.document;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml
> .template;
> 
> X-Calligra-DefaultMimeTypes=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text,applica
> tion/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template,application/msword,application/rt
> f,text/plain,application/x-mswrite,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedoc
> ument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocume
> nt.wordprocessingml.template
Yes I vote we remove them from the repository