Paste special

[John Tapsell]

Thomas,
>  ODF is not a 'text/*' mimetype.  And it still contains text (which is
pastable for many apps as soon as we get the kodf module up and running)

  I get your point, but I don't really see a usecase to be honest.

  I think you are making this overly complex for a first iteration.
Konversation already shows a dialog to let you reformat it, and I
think that sort of thing is going to be application specific.

  I think that for a first try at this, a simple menu option is
sufficient.  Just show all text/* mimetypes in a human readable way,
in a menu.

John

On 16/09/2007, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 September 2007 12:20:56 John Tapsell wrote:
> > Thomas,
> >
> >   I think the "obvious" solution is to simply assume  text/*  can be
> > pasted as text, and other mimetypes can't.
>
> ODF is not a 'text/*' mimetype.  And it still contains text (which is
> pastable for many apps as soon as we get the kodf module up and running)
>
> >   For the usecases you specified, I don't want to think about them to
> > be honest.  It is totally fine for koffice programs to do something
> > more advanced than other apps.
>
> Sharing infrastructure as well as sharing the workflow is important,
> though.
>
> >   I think it would be great to just worry about "normal" programs -
> > kate, kwrite, konversation, konsole, etc.
>
> So, in konversation you don't see the use of having a 'paste special' that
> shows a dialog to allow you to reformat a text or email ?  For example by
> removing linebreaks from a text you copy pasted from an email.
>
> Personally, I don't think the KOffice usecases are that weird, and the
> showing of a dialog with a nice extensible API sounds just fine for all
> apps to me.
> --
> Thomas Zander
>