On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > One thing I have been thinking might be nice is the ability to use an > arbitrary _external_ renderer to visualise the contents of the inset. > We already have two internal renderers --- a simple button and a > graphics renderer --- with a preview renderer to follow.
One approach would be to define a new exporting format: GUI format. > Do you have any feel for the feasibility of --- say --- embedding > gnumeric to visualise spreadsheet data? I did a bit of a google > search and it appears that Matthias Ettrich tried to generalise the > KParts stuff as XParts but all references to it seemed at least two > years old. Do the above, and then I think the better approach is just to bug the authors of such programs to make export options in the programs. And as a fall-back, why not just use a screen-shot making program? The task of designing a new XPart thing is big, and doomed to be uphill due to a multiple of different technologies used, lack of man-power to implement support for it in other applications, no buy-in from other applications, and so on. A simple export feature, however, even if it flashes a window shortly, is often a five-line patch: Open the document, save it in some useful format, and close the application again. From there, the converter business picks up the ball. Most maintainers would accept such patches. Best regards, Asger
