Draft template for registration of KOffice mimetypes (last call)

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:46:08PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 20 May 2002 22:02, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > IIUYC, KWord writes default author information without asking the user?
> > Like extracting the full name from /etc/passwd and writing that into 
> > every document that the user creates???
> 
> No.
> 
> Ok, from looking more into the code (koffice/lib/kofficecore/koDocumentInfo*),
> here's what happens currently:
> * by default the documentinfo.xml is empty
> * when opening the documentinfo dialog, that one get pre-filled with
> the entries entered the last time in that dialog (stuff saved in "kofficerc").
> The user can then delete anything that shouldn't be added, for instance.
> * The information coming from kofficerc is completed (where empty)
> by the information from the KControl email module (the "emaildefaults" config file).
> This is also when OPENING THE DIALOG. Users who don't open that dialog
> (and press Ok) in it, get nothing in the documentinfo.xml.
> 
> That's what I see from the code, please shout if you see a different behaviour
> during actual testing.

Yes, that is in line with how we meant it to be.  I debugged that last time 
we had a document like this, and am pretty sure it behaves like the above. 

We _did_ learn from M$ :)

-- 
Thomas Zander                                           zander at planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be
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