Hi Bernhard,
Christian is absolutely right with his proposal.
Gallery will need a major rework, if not a complete
rewrite.
Regarding your question, I don't see an other solution
as well at the moment, since graphics are only stored inside the
gallery theme files itself if they are dragged out of a document,
because in this case, a new file needs to be created. In any other
case, only links to existing files are stored.
As mentioned earlier, writing adapters for different clipart
repositories, as already discussed within our clipart repository
thread, are a must for this rework.
I'm sorry, that I'm not able to give you a detailed timeline
at the moment, but further details will be discussed soon,
I think.
With best regards
Kai
Christian Lippka schrieb:
Hi Bernhard,
I'm sorry that I don't have any solution for you except to look at
the gengal tool that is in one of the OOo program directories. I never
used it but it maybe does what you need.
Beside that I think it is time that we start re designing the gallery
as it is really comming of age.
Right now I have the following improvements on my mental list:
- make it possible to add new gallery themes with extensions
- make it possible to add templates and slides to the gallery
- add online content access to the gallery (facebook, youtube, e.t.c.)
All in all I love the gallery to become more like an "asset manager"
than just a place with some clip art. Adding search and taging
functionality. Maybe even shared galleries.
I may create an initial wiki page so anyone who likes to work with
me on this please drop a note. But this is definitly something for
the time after OOo 3.2 is finished.
Regards,
Christian
Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Hi all,
I don't want to keep you off the discussion (and work) for the
SVG-implementation really needed, but as I try to improve the clipart
gallery by providing the present gallery themes (mainly from the 2006
Documentation Project contest, see [1]) as extensions, there are a few
topics I want to address one by one, if I know about the right people
to ask.
For the moment my most important point is:
- If I add some files from my file system to a gallery theme, they are
not embedded, but linked to it.
After creation of an extension anybody else can't use them, because
the links still point to my computer [2].
Do I really have to copy every single clipart to a document and
re-insert it to the gallery? This would take much more time than I
wanted to invest on that task.
Is there a way I didn't see?
Best regards
Bernhard
PS:If this question would better be posted anywhere else, please tell me.
[1]:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/gallery/index.html
[2]: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AlphaBlocks
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