Bug in shape opacity save

[Inge Wallin]

On Monday, January 14, 2013 18:57:52 Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On Saturday 12 January 2013 19:06:30 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jean-Nicolas Artaud
> > 
> > <jeannicolasartaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've found a bug in calligra using stage. I'm on the master.
> > > 
> > > Way to reproduce:
> > > 
> > > o Add a shape on the slide. (hexagon tested)
> > > o Change its opacity. (StrokeFillDocker tested)
> > > o Save the document.
> > > o Quit and relaunck Stage, open the saved document.
> > > o The opacity is 100% (BUG)
> > > o Try to play with the opacity (with the StrokeFillDocker for instance)
> > > and
> > > it doesn't affect the shape (BUG)
> > > 
> > > Don't hesitate to come back to me if you need more informations, I'm
> > > ready to answer and help you if necessary.
> 
> I think I can shade some light into this. There are two ways to set the
> opacity. One is the opacity in the slide and fill docker and the other is
> in the color of the fill/border. The opacity in the fill/border is saved
> while the one in the opacity field is not. The one in the field gets
> applied to both the opacity of the fill and border. This only gets saved
> as far as I know when saving to svg. Problem is that odf does not support
> that value. One think that could be done on saving to odf is to calculate
> a values out of the color and the opacity box and save that. However on
> loading it will be stored only in the color. If we also want to restore
> the value in the box we would need to save the value in a additional tag
> so it could be calculated again.
> 
> I hope that helps a bit.

Yeah, I've noticed this duplicity too although I didn't connect it to any 
save/load problems.  

Obviously the UI is totally confusing and outright wrong.  What's your 
suggestion to change it? One of the opacity settings should obviously go.


> Thorsten
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