Re: [office-metadata] meta-field and more...

[Elias Torres <eliast@us.ibm.com>]

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us> wrote on 05/10/2007 03:01:12
PM:

>
> On May 10, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:
>
> > The ability to be read-only is already quite application specific.
> >
> > Patrick mentioned two nice arguments to keep the definition to be
> > created based on Metadata and not write protect the element:
> > 1) What if the user would like to tweak the generated content before
> > he prints it?
>
> Can we avoid the gendered language please? You can use the neutral
> "they print it" in this context.
>
> Beyond that, fields are always effectively read-only, even if
> applications sometimes allow what you ask about. The field content is,
> after all, often dynamically re-generated, which is why they are
> read-only by default.

Right.  Basically, I want us to be very vague about it and leave it up to
applications to define their specs for interoperability (e.g. plugins in
KOffice and OOo).

>
> > 2) There is a certain user expectation that elements that had been
> > generated are marked. But of course the plugin might even create other
> > elements (e.g. a table).
>
> I'm not sure this supports either position really?
>
> Bruce
>

-Elias