Wouldn't it be an idea to discuss this metadata support with the other
Gnome Office developers, like the Gnumeric ones, so we don't end up with
very different systems?
Just a thought,
Kenneth
tor, 2002-05-16 kl. 18:07 skrev Paul Rohr:
At 11:25 AM 5/16/02 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>I'm not working on this right now. My metadata props work on a document
>level.
Since this is the developer list, a quick terminology reminder. [1]
As mentioned previously, I think it's very important for developers to
maintain a metadata vs. PROPS distinction:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0384.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0385.html
We now have metadata (mostly user-visible, mostly for indexing purposes).
Tomas and I claim that the file format *also* needs document-level PROPS
which which work as defaults for lower-level PROPS.
In short, metadata is what goes in the new dialog. PROPS don't.
Paul
[1] If this were the user list, I wouldn't quibble about this at all. As
far as users are concerned, there *are* only one kind of file-level
properties: the ones they see in the File Properties dialog.
I just want to make sure that anyone doing development remembers the
metadata vs. PROPS distinction. Nobody else needs to know or care.
