Calligra/File filters
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This page is intented to discuss around the issues with the current filter
State
Calligra/filter_overview Overview of the KOffice filters and their state
Debugging
Keeping temporary imported files
KOffice filters create temporary ODF files during importing. These files are removed as soon as the resulting file is opened.
To keep the .tmp file, set KOFFICE_DEBUG_FILTERS to any value, e.g.:
% KOFFICE_DEBUG_FILTERS=1 kword file.doc
(this debugging functionality is implemented in KoDocument.cpp)
Extracting temporary imported ODF file for further analysis
Create script like presented below
#!/bin/bash # performs ods to xls test conversion path=~/tests/xls cd $path temp=/tmp/kde-`whoami`/xls mkdir -p $temp || exit 1 koconverter $path/sample.xls $temp/sample.ods && rm -rf $temp/*.xml \ && unzip -o $temp/sample.ods -d $temp/ && touch $temp/*
List of issues
- no progress report, no possibility to cancel: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158462
- poor error reporting
- configuration: it would be nice to save some configuration and to have the possibility to apply them again when saving different documents, to remember the last used configuration, and also a better way to disable widgets/dialogs (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83843)
- some filters depends on the internal libraries of applications (while others are independent), and they might better be moved inside the application (this will allow developers to stop forgetting about them after some change in the libraries)
- limit writing to the hard drive (make it possible for the full chain to work in memory)
- should be possible to test filters without relying on configuration outside of the build directory
- untie it from KoDocument
- no way to handle subdocuments (that code was never finished)
- make it possible to different UI