On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Currently the Import menu of the WYSIWYG editor has two entries:
> 
> * 'Office Document' for importing office files
> * 'Office Content (Copy / Paste)' for pasting rich text (copied usually 
> from office documents)
> 
> We had a few complains from uses that were pasting the rich text 
> directly in the edited document causing the editor to misbehave or 
> getting unexpected content after save. When they were told to use the 
> 'Office Content (Copy / Paste)' entry from the Import menu they seemed 
> surprised
> 
> Ideally the editor should catch the paste event and clean the pasted 
> rich text on the fly before it is inserted in the edited document but 
> currently there's no clean way to do this: access to the clipboard is 
> restricted for security reasons and the paste event is not well 
> supported in all major browsers.
> 
> I recently committed a change to the WYSIWYG editor to allow putting any 
> of the Import menu entries on the tool bar.
> 
> (1) Should we enable the 'Office Content (Copy / Paste)' button on the 
> tool bar by default in the standard XE distribution?

+1 since it's way too hidden in the import menu and not logical for the 
majority of users.

> (2) Should we remove the 'Office Content (Copy / Paste)' entry from the 
> Import menu?

+1 for me especially in view of (1) (ie people don't expect paste to be an 
import). I don't have a problem with a single menu entry (note that the Image 
menu also has a single entry....).

Thanks
-Vincent

> I'm +1 for (1) and -0 for (2) because the Import menu would look awkward 
> with just one entry. Note that it's not unusual to have a feature both 
> in the menu and in the tool bar.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marius
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