Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 17 juin 2008 01:47, Liam R E Quin a écrit : as a MathML or SVG editor isn't the same as a text editor. But if I select a sentence with bold, italic, a superscript and a right-to-left quotation, and choose Copy, and go to another program, and do Paste, I'd like (1) the same thing to

Re: Icon names vs. emblems

2008-06-17 Thread Jakob Petsovits
On Tuesday, 17. June 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote: One intriguing possibility to solve this is to use some kind of escape in icon names, and do something like drive-harddisk+encrypted-locked which is currently not an allowed icon name (since the + is not allowed in

Re: Icon names vs. emblems

2008-06-17 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what should happen if there are more emblems required by the application (say, folder+encrypted+important+favorite)? When that verbatim icon does not exist, will the icon engine look up folder+encrypted+important,

Re: Icon names vs. emblems

2008-06-17 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:35 +0200, Jakob Petsovits wrote: As long as providing such a [base]+[emblem] icon is always optional for the icon theme, this might work out nicely. I think the language in your patch is not optimal yet, it should emphasize that this is mainly a feature for

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Meyer
Could the app copying the text set some sort of hint (maybe mime type?) about the format of the copied text or object? If we could have a type hint of the copied object and a set of possible types that each app accepts we might be able to write some converters to get from Type A to Type B. For

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 17 juin 2008 à 22:06 +0200, François Revol a écrit : And please have a setting to make one default desktop-side. Formatted text cut pasting is a major plague in OO.o, one is always wasting time un-formatting the result to avoid style contamination. You know Shift-Ctrl-v

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-17 Thread François Revol
You know Shift-Ctrl-v in OOo proposes you a list of formats before pasting, just select plain text there. Which wastes almost as much time when you're cut and pasting every 2 minutes. Yeah but I still have to find where to change the default. The fact is, applications and documents

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 22:33 +0200, François Revol wrote: Maybe it should instead be xml-based, using formats, but that would only work inside OOo itself, so... Unless the XML-based format was widely supported... So if formatted text cut pasted text is generalized: 1. it must be