[kde-edu]: KVocTrain rewrite - feature list and usecases

[Dominique Devriese]

Dennis Haney writes:

>>>> Second the kvtml file format itself. The minimum changes I would
>>>> like to do are adding an attribute to the <e> element for storing
>>>> the rowheight used when displaying the vocabulary, and adding
>>>> <sound> and <image> child elements to the <o> and <t>
>>>> elements. Sound and image are needed to create a flashcard
>>>> program that can use this type of data. The elements would
>>>> contain URLs linking to sound or image files.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> My plan was to save these (picutre/sound) files in the kvtml file
>>> aswell. My plan is then to change the kvtml filetype to be a
>>> collection filetype, like openoffice packs its files as zip
>>> archives holding the pictures/sound etc. as seperat entities in
>>> the file..  My logic is that the user is unlikely to guess (know?) 
>>> that there are several files to copy, when (s)he makes a
>>> backup. And it will be difficult to figure out which
>>> (sound/picture) files belong to which kvtml file.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I'm aware of this problem. Your solution is more complete. I
>> don't know how to create and work with such files, but I guess
>> there is code in KOffice also?

> If I can't find anything, I'll contact Trolltech to hear them if
> they are interested in such a feature...

If you are talking about the code that maintains a zip archive
containing the document together with external data like images and
such, then KOffice has this already, yes: look in koffice/lib/store.
Unfortunately, this code is not usable from kdeedu, because we can't
make kdeedu dependent on KOffice ( due to the broken kde module system
:( )..

cheers
domi