<div dir="ltr">Hi Miklos,<div>See my comments below.</div><div>Thanks,<br>Adam<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Miklos Vajna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vmiklos@suse.cz" target="_blank">vmiklos@suse.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Adam,<br>
<br>
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 05:35:12PM +0300, Adam Fyne <<a href="mailto:Adam.Fyne@cloudon.com">Adam.Fyne@cloudon.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We are doing some work on implementing 'Smart-Art *Preservation*' in Writer.<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> Meaning – if the user does WordèLOèWord round-trip we plan that they<br>
> won't lose their Smart-Art object.<br>
><br>
</div>> Currently Smart-Art is being imported into *simple shapes* in Writer (which<br>
<div class="im">> don't exactly look the same), and most of the actual data and binding<br>
> between shapes is lost (not to mention it doesn't look the same).<br>
><br>
> In order to preserve the original Smart-Art object – we would plan on<br>
> loading the entire XML nodes and attributes of Smart-Art to property maps<br>
> (e.g. Miklos's great 'InteropGrabBag').<br>
<br>
</div>This makes sense, yes.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> In addition, instead of showing to the user simple shapes (that he can<br>
> currently edit and move around) –<br>
><br>
</div>> we would like to change this and show the user a *locked* bitmap of the<br>
<div class="im">> smart-art, that the user cannot manipulate (so that he can at least<br>
> preserve the original Smart-Art).<br>
<br>
</div>What is the benefit of this, from a user's point of view?<br></blockquote><div><br>Because at this phase, we are not going to add logic to 'manipulate' the Smart-Art object,</div><div>so if a user is allowed to changed the location of the shapes, and then saves back the file - and opens it in Word -</div>
<div>he won't understand why his 'changes' to the shapes weren't persisted.</div><div>That's why we believe it is best to simply not allow any changes, because they won't be persisted anyway.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> Should we take a different approach that maybe pops a message when loading<br>
> a DOCX with Smart-Art asking the user:<br>
><br>
</div>> *"We noticed you are importing a DOCX with Smart-Art. Would you like to<br>
> preserve it and keep it un-editable or convert it to simple shapes ?"*<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> And then act according to the user's choice? (choosing simple shapes will<br>
> lose the 'Smart-Art' functionality, while choosing 'preserve' will not let<br>
> the user edit the smart-art, only see it).<br>
<br>
</div>This is certainly possible, e.g. the ASCII filter asks for encoding<br>
IIRC, the CSV import filter is also interactive, but one popup for every<br>
smartart is probably a bit too much, imagine a presentation containing<br>
100 smartart shapes. :)<br></blockquote><div>The idea was to show a single pop-up for 'all Smart-Art' objects in the file - asking </div><div>"do you want to convert the Smart-Art in this file to simple shapes (and lose functionallity) or preserve the original Smart-Art objects ?"</div>
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Miklos<br>
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