Re: [Libreoffice] ODF 1.2 and extended

2011-02-15 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cesare Leonardi wrote: > As a user i'd want a stable and long term file format, not one that > change often and without clear evidence of that. > Hi Cesare, yes, but you probably also want to sometimes load MS Office documents that people mail you, and not loose half of the layout. Or maybe not y

Re: [Libreoffice] ODF 1.2 and extended

2011-02-14 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 14/02/2011 15:22, Thorsten Behrens wrote: ODF 1.1 was approved more than four years ago, and 1.2 is still not done - this is something that just won't fly. LibO uses ODF as its native file format, so there's really no other way to save new features. Hi Thorsten and thank you for your detaile

Re: [Libreoffice] ODF 1.2 and extended

2011-02-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cesare Leonardi wrote: > The question is: why using the extended version by default? > Hi Cesare, well, because we'd otherwise need to stop developing new features (which have somewhat of an 2/3rd probability of affecting the file format). ODF 1.1 was approved more than four years ago, and 1.2 is

[Libreoffice] ODF 1.2 and extended

2011-02-13 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Hello all. I'd like to reopen a discussion that some month ago took place here: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg02398.html It was suggested to discuss it with the developers but Google doesn't seem to find other discussions on this topic. So here i am. :-) LibreOffic