On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 16:30, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/23/2010 11:51 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> >> On 23.06.2010 10:44, Herbert Duerr wrote: >> >>> I'm looking into making that internship happen because you seem to be >>> quite competent and self-motivated. I'm discussing this with the writer >>> team as the #i112466# part of the project would be mentored by me, the >>> #i79878# part by someone from the writer team. Not sure how this works >>> out with vacation plans etc. Stay tuned... >> >> We can't discuss that without Oliver Specht (the owner of #i79878) who >> will not be available before tomorrow. So at the moment I can give just >> some general comments as a member of the Internship committee. >> >> IMHO working on these issues can be part of the Internship program, even >> if it is hard to draw an exact boundary where and when the project will >> end. I would be fine with finding an agreement about that while the work >> is done. Also interruptions of the work due to other duties would be >> fine for me if that happens in a calculable manner. >> >> Some words about issue #79878: this will require working on UI code as >> well as on application core code (new items etc.). I assume that also >> VCL will be affected. So all in all that will be a lot of code to get >> familiar with. Miloš, if you want to take that challenge, I will try to >> find a mentor (or several of them) for the work outside of VCL. > > Meanwhile I discovered a serious problem that might let us postpone this > work. Whatever users select in the dialog, it must be stored in the > document. For several reasons it's not enough to just store the complete > font name (and let the program fiddle out the details when the document is > loaded again), we also must store the font properties as text attributes. As > ODF currently does not support all that we need, it seems that a file format > change is necessary. That's not impossible, but will take some time, > especially as the ODF TC is still busy with finishing ODF 1.2. > > So at least we have to make a plan for the file format changes before we can > discuss the details of when and how issue #78978 can be fixed.
That really is unfortunate. If I understood your email right, additions to the file format will take longer than a few months to complete? Then I could still work on #i112466# and when that is finished, see what would be the next priority. For example #i108684#. Kind regards, Miloš --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
