https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159762
Bug ID: 159762
Summary: cloud based cooperation / operation
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
It would be great if the following could be "exported" from your
libreoffice instance and imported into another libreoffice instance (of the
same version number):
a dictionary (or two, or more):
the customized layout (of the UI, of course)
templates (not all of them, only under "my templates"
(and very probably much more, later on)
. . . . .
I'm sure, this represents a high level of complexity...
But it could be started anywhere...
Say, with the templates, on Linux:
a custom directory could be made (or assigned) under My Documents...
it could have a special name, like "interchange" or export-import :)
(the idea of "interchange" comes from Ardour)
Then the user could decide what to "export-import"...
Under "export-import", there could be the export-importable (interchangeable)
items...
such as "dictionaries", "UI layout", "Templates"...
and under them,
directories for the given "machine name" (or nick name)...
.....
Then the importing could also be done manually...
and could be done not just once, but anytime...
say, "import dictionary" and you select the one under the dictionaries
directory...
and a little but later you can import another dictionary...
and choose to use it as the active one...
....................... COMPLEX... sure....
But once it gets started, it will certainly operate UNIVERSALLY...
....
PS:
I think I'm aware that any development like this (affecting underlying
structure) involves a great level of complexity...
But unlike Microsoft and Apple, we can count on the intelligence of the
"users"... And instead of obscure "automation", it could be done in a
transparent, manual manner..
I'm not a programmer, so I might be wrong... But it appear to me that
Libreoffice has come along way in terms of complexity ANYWAY...
And some "universalization" is due anyway...
Take Templates...
It is hard to import one...
Sometimes you put one in the directory, and won't get recognized.
Sometimes you import it and a copy is made of it (say, "cool_template-2024.ott"
becomes "cool_template-20241.ott", and the latter is the actual template,
bearing the name of the former...
What mean by "cloud based operation" is a simple and logical concept:
You have cloud storage and you "sync" your documents... so that each of your
machine could open them....
This could be easily (or not so easily) extended by "syncing" other files over
your machines...
including dictionaries, templates, and other key things...
so that you could have several machines with the same Libreoffice working
environment... as if using the same instance of LO... on all your machines...
- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice - - -
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