broken filters in words

[Sebastian Sauer]

On 12/02/2011 05:31 PM, C. Boemann wrote:
> 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

I would prefer to keep them + disable compile + add a comment why / what 
needs to be done so if someone steps in to add/extend a certain filter 
he/she could build up his work on an probably already the existing one.