Hi Edmund, as discussed on the members list, let's continue in public - some feedback below:
Edmund Laugasson wrote: > Hereby are my proposals to consider: > > o *topic: zooming feature in presentation* - e.g. famous > proprietary Prezi <https://prezi.com/> and its FLOSS counterpart > Sozi <https://sozi.baierouge.fr/> (together with Inkscape > <https://inkscape.org/>) but today also MS PowerPoint have > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-E2o0H6_pg> these zooming > presentation features. *Would kindly ask TDF Board help to > engage developers to implement these zooming features seen in > Sozi, Prezi, MS PowerPoint also into LibreOffice Impress and > improve also ODF accordingly.* * > Would love to see that! That said, TDF as a charity cannot easily develop software, so it's more the 'try and motivate volunteers to help improving Impress' angle that might be successful here. Two suggestions to push this further: - cut this down into more bite-sized pieces (which is more manageable and rewarding for volunteers) - engage with the UX & design project to come up with ideas how to best integrate that with the existing GUI (their list ist des...@global.libreoffice.org) After that, e.g. adding a more fully fleshed-out proposal to the GSoC ideas list might find a motivated student next year (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas). > o *topic: zooming feature (and much more) in spreadsheet* - > referring to TreeSheets <http://strlen.com/treesheets/> and its > tutorial <http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/tutorial.html> and > intro video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB-saQZfrsw>. > *Would kindly ask TDF Board help to engage developers to > implement these features seen in TreeSheets also into > LibreOffice Calc and improve also ODF **accordingly*. > Same answer probably as above - just in this case, it feels a bit like a fringe feature, where perhaps people who _want_ to use it, could use the original (which is Free Software just as well)? > o **much better SVG > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics> support > (edit, save, open) in LibreOffice** - if not yet then would > propose to replace all graphics in LibreOffice with SVG > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics> images > (menus, clipart, etc). Also allow edit SVG > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics> and > save/open into/from that file format in LibreOffice. E.g. allow > save (initially also e.g. export) Writer, Draw, Impress > (possibly also others) documents into SVG and later also open, > edit seamlessly. As SVG > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics> is also > XML-based and FLOSS format then hopefully it is easy to add. > Especially in the lights of upcoming SVG2 standard > <https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/>. > SVG support could certainly be even better in LibreOffice, I agree. But there's a great FLOSS program for svg editing, Inkscape - so I wonder, how much of that would make sense to duplicate? There's also some subtle differences in ODF vs. SVG, that make it hard to convert one into the other without data loss. As such, beyond bugfixing & generally improving our filters (which is kind of ongoing anyway), I also personally think this is less important - since the FLOSS universe already has Inkscape for that (and they're alive and kicking, just recently published their v1.0). > * *ODP export script for Sozi* - here is the recent developer post > <https://github.com/senshu/Sozi-export/issues/25#issuecomment-624238494> > where is asked easy-to-use node.js module for Sozi to allow easily > export SVG presentation into OpenDocument Presentation. There > already is similar node.js module for proprietary PPTX export. > *Would kindly ask TDF Board help to engage developers to create such > ODP-module**for Sozi*. > Read the github issue, interesting conversation - my take from that is, that perhaps better, overall ODF library support would be great to have! Historically, ODF had excellent library support for Java (that work was funded by Sun, then later by IBM), and also for Perl and Python (LPoD projecy, funded by the French government). For newer languages like nodejs, ODF support is indeed somewhat patchy - but there's projects like https://www.npmjs.com/package/simple-odf or https://www.npmjs.com/package/odt where at least ODT support seems present (simple presentations shouldn't be too hard to add I guess). Extending language support there would clearly help with ODF adoption; but again the same comment applies as for the first proposal - hard for TDF to fund pure software development, initial step should be we try & motivate volunteers (or find a student and a mentor for a GSoC project). For this nodejs thingit - engaging with the mentioned github projects, perhaps checking their issue tracker and/or suggesting that feature might be another avenue. For additional next steps: technical details could perhaps be discussed on the odf toolkit mailing list (https://odftoolkit.org/mailing-lists.html#development-mailing-list), there's also maybe the odd volunteer lurking there who could be interested. GSoC project ideas need to be in the wiki, and pruning/selecting/mentor finding usually happens around January/February each year, and gets discussed in the ESC. Interested to take over a few of those next bits? Cheers, -- Thorsten -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
