Hi Rajath,

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:07:41PM +0530, Rajath Shashidhara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a beginner in this opensource development. Kindly bear with my
> trivial doubts.
> I would like to participate in gsoc 2013. I began with solving a bug
> which was related page layout. Mr. Rob flagged that bug as hard for a
> beginner in a series of mails that I had with a few developers who
> helped me a lot.
> 
> For that reason, I chose an easier bug to solve. Bug - 119445
> I used the following method to fix this bug.
> I removed the entry <menu:menuitem menu:id=".uno:ExportToPDF"/>
> from main/sw/uiconfig/swriter/menubar/menubar.xml
> 
> I then built openoffice again. Now Export to PDF is not shown anymore in 
> Writer!
> But, I also have to remove the part of the code which connects this
> menuitem to mouseclick and the function of exporting to PDF has to be
> removed.
> 
> I tried my best to find the link where exactly this xml file is used
> and the ui response is coded. I would be very happy If anybody could
> help me out with this. I would be very excited to complete my first
> bug fix!

IMO this bug needs input from User Experience experts: the menu is not
duplicated because in one case you export directly to PDF, while the
File - Export... menu takes more steps to export to PDF; so, removing
File - Export as PDF... might be seen as a regression by the user.


Regards
-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina

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