On 10-06-2024 16:37, Michael Meeks wrote:
Hi all,
On 07/06/2024 14:20, Luuk van der Duim wrote:
Thanks for your thoughts! I will gladly expand a bit.
Let me add my 2 cents; a spreadsheet can have 10^20 rows, and 2^14
columns - that's 34 bits already - so even in the case that you
thought you wanted to iterate them all over a remote bus - you don't.
Indeed - the whole idea is madness; there was this
manages-descendants hack in the past to try to tag such widgets to
avoid iterating them.
My attempts to encourage people to expose only the visible (or
near visible) items in the past were not that productive; but I still
firmly believe this is the only sensible way to do this.
[..]
> or to the visible and showing objects only.
This is IMHO the only sensible approach; thanks for suggesting it;
though of course it is then ideal to have some nice navigation API
support wrapped around that - although ... we have a lot of well-known
navigation keyboard shortcuts in-place of course.
Yes, sighted people only get a slice at a time too. As a rule of thumb,
this seems logical to expose the same as that visible slice.
Could LibreOffice please limit the reply-message to something
reasonably sized? (Or at least legally sized?) This is currently a
bit of a foot-gun with a public interface.
Not clear to me how LibreOffice can determine the byte size of the
dbus message that is serialized from the data we expose ;-) and this
is before we get into the "whole court transcript in one paragraph"
horrors that plague certain types of document ;-)
That is a bit outside my wheelhouse too.
Thanks for chiming in ;)
