On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Christian Lippka<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Or make it easy for extensions to hack gallery.
> - make it possible to add templates and slides to the gallery Sounds like we want to go back to StarOffice 8, where the filemanger was accesible within the wordprocessor as well as caendar and contacts. > - add online content access to the gallery (facebook, youtube, e.t.c.) I am not sure I want to support proprietary protocols, but maybe look into the open API from free software platform like Drupal, Gallery, etc. > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
