Thanks for reporting. I looked at the circle code and it seems that cut and
section are really mixed. The problem is not just the loading (or saving), but
with the code which actullay creates the shape. So how do you think i should
fix that? If i change the code which creates the shape, older documents will be
broken. Otherwise i would only change the loading/saving of odg files, swapping
the kind the type only there and we can really fix that for koffice 2. What do
you think?

Ciao Jan

Is it possible to create such a section withing karbon? I never found how as
there are no tool options or something like that.

If there is a way to create it, I'd say keep compatible within the 1.6 range
and fix it for real in the 2.0 time.
In 2.0 you can alter the old koffice fileformat to swap them for proper
backwards compatibility.

It is possible, but not very obvious. :-) Just select the ellipse tool and
single click onto the canvas. A options dialog should appear where you can set
the kind, size, and start/end angle of the ellipse.

I will change the odf loading/saving so that it will display the correct
result.

SVN commit 601329 by jaham:

fix reading and saving of circles from/to odg

BUG:136497



 M  +20 -7     vellipse.cc  


--- branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/karbon/shapes/vellipse.cc #601328:601329
@@ -177,9 +177,11 @@
 		docWriter->addAttribute( "draw:kind", "full" );
 	else
 	{
-		if( m_type == cut )
+		// the meaning of cut and section is mixed up in karbon, so just set them so for now
+		// be sure to do the right thing tm for karbon 2.0
+		if( m_type == section )
 			docWriter->addAttribute( "draw:kind", "cut" );
-		else if( m_type == section )
+		else if( m_type == cut )
 			docWriter->addAttribute( "draw:kind", "section" );
 		else
 			docWriter->addAttribute( "draw:kind", "arc" );
@@ -237,21 +239,32 @@
 	else
 		m_center.setY( m_ry + KoUnit::parseValue( element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::svg, "y", QString::null ) ) );
 
-	m_startAngle = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "start-angle", QString::null ).toDouble();
-	m_endAngle = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "end-angle", QString::null ).toDouble();
-
+	// the meaning of cut and section is mixed up in karbon, so just set them so for now
+	// be sure to do the right thing tm for karbon 2.0
 	QString kind = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "kind", QString::null );
 	if( kind == "cut" )
+		m_type = section;
+	else if( kind == "section" )
 		m_type = cut;
-	else if( kind == "section" )
-		m_type = section;
 	else if( kind == "arc" )
 		m_type = arc;
 	else
 		m_type = full;
 
+	double startAngle = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "start-angle", QString::null ).toDouble();
+	double endAngle = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "end-angle", QString::null ).toDouble();
+	
+	// the shape gets mirrored in y-direction, so make the angles temporary clockwise 
+	// just for creating the path
+	m_startAngle = 360.0 - endAngle;
+	m_endAngle = 360.0 - startAngle;
+	
 	init();
 
+	// now set the right angles
+	m_startAngle = startAngle;
+	m_endAngle = endAngle;
+	
 	transformByViewbox( element, element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::svg, "viewBox", QString::null ) );
 
 	QString trafo = element.attributeNS( KoXmlNS::draw, "transform", QString::null );