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by Ivan M
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Hi Bernhard, all,
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bernhard
Dippold<bernhard@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the website project discusses a way to present OpenOffice.org extensions
> more prominently on the website.
Just for reference, the main messages relating to this discussion can
be found at
http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=10849
and http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=10856
> One of the four main topics among these extensions are cliparts that can be
> integrated in the program's gallery that is quite poor in comparison to the
> cliparts in MS Office.
>
> What do you think about creating new clipart galleries?
>
> They can presented for download on the wiki, and if we consider them to be
> good enough to become official, they should be moved to an official artwork
> gallery and might be integrated in the core program in a second step.
>
> IMHO this might be an excellent opportunity for us to take a quite important
> task for the program as well as to improve the Art Project's position in the
> OOo community.
A big +1, and I'd like to offer help as well.
The Gallery (click the picture frame icon in the standard toolbar) has
some very outdated artwork, especially in bullets and homepage -
dithered GIFs that would have blown people away last century but now
they're quite outdated. We might even propose getting rid of some
existing galleries (like the Homepage gallery - I don't envision many
people using these graphics... or maybe that's just wishful thinking
on my part :P). You can find the graphics files for existing galleries
in the basis/share/gallery folder.
With regards to clipart, I'm wondering about how this could be
implemented - would we just add a new gallery called 'Clipart'? If so,
then does anyone know if it's possible to have sub-galleries?
Otherwise browsing the clipart gallery could get difficult as the
collection grows - I know MS office has a search functionality and
keywords assigned to each image so that it can be categorized, but it
doesn't look like OOo has this functionality.
An alternative might be to have a gallery for each category of clipart
(though then we have the problem that if a clipart image can be
classified as more than one category, things get tricky - we'd have to
duplicate the images if there is no categorization and that would mean
redundancy).... just thinking out loud :)
> Do you think we could manage such a task?
>
> It would consist of several steps:
>
> - creation of the artwork
> - integrating it in a new clipart gallery in OOo
> - creating an extension for easy integration by the user
Do you envision creating the gallery as an extension first and then
integrating it into the main OOo, or creating some default artwork and
then creating additional extensions?
That's all I can add at this stage, but in the meantime I'll try to
get a better idea of how OOo's gallery works and what its limitations
are.
Regards,
Ivan.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Bernhard
Dippold<bernhard@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the website project discusses a way to present OpenOffice.org extensions
> more prominently on the website.
Just for reference, the main messages relating to this discussion can
be found at
http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=10849
and http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=10856
> One of the four main topics among these extensions are cliparts that can be
> integrated in the program's gallery that is quite poor in comparison to the
> cliparts in MS Office.
>
> What do you think about creating new clipart galleries?
>
> They can presented for download on the wiki, and if we consider them to be
> good enough to become official, they should be moved to an official artwork
> gallery and might be integrated in the core program in a second step.
>
> IMHO this might be an excellent opportunity for us to take a quite important
> task for the program as well as to improve the Art Project's position in the
> OOo community.
A big +1, and I'd like to offer help as well.
The Gallery (click the picture frame icon in the standard toolbar) has
some very outdated artwork, especially in bullets and homepage -
dithered GIFs that would have blown people away last century but now
they're quite outdated. We might even propose getting rid of some
existing galleries (like the Homepage gallery - I don't envision many
people using these graphics... or maybe that's just wishful thinking
on my part :P). You can find the graphics files for existing galleries
in the basis/share/gallery folder.
With regards to clipart, I'm wondering about how this could be
implemented - would we just add a new gallery called 'Clipart'? If so,
then does anyone know if it's possible to have sub-galleries?
Otherwise browsing the clipart gallery could get difficult as the
collection grows - I know MS office has a search functionality and
keywords assigned to each image so that it can be categorized, but it
doesn't look like OOo has this functionality.
An alternative might be to have a gallery for each category of clipart
(though then we have the problem that if a clipart image can be
classified as more than one category, things get tricky - we'd have to
duplicate the images if there is no categorization and that would mean
redundancy).... just thinking out loud :)
> Do you think we could manage such a task?
>
> It would consist of several steps:
>
> - creation of the artwork
> - integrating it in a new clipart gallery in OOo
> - creating an extension for easy integration by the user
Do you envision creating the gallery as an extension first and then
integrating it into the main OOo, or creating some default artwork and
then creating additional extensions?
That's all I can add at this stage, but in the meantime I'll try to
get a better idea of how OOo's gallery works and what its limitations
are.
Regards,
Ivan.
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