https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85420
Jay Philips <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- Ever confirmed|1 |0 --- Comment #5 from Jay Philips <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #4) > What Kingsoft/WPS does is essentially a duplication of any template website. Yes they are integrating a template website into their application. This isnt any different from integrating firefox persona themes into LibreOffice ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Firefox_Themes ) rather than having users go to the website. > I don’t see the point, given that we already have a link to that website in > the Template Manager dialog. We have a link to the template website from the template manager, but nothing for the start center. So even if integrating the website into the start center isnt going to fly, we still need a button in the start center linking users to the template website. > Any effort we (or a GSoC student) do, won’t > *ever* reach an acceptable level of quality I believe that it can reach an acceptable level of quality, similar to how the firefox themes has reached a good level of quality now. > and what will happen if the web > side of it is unavailable, or changes protocols, or the user doesn’t have > free Internet access? What happens when a user doesnt have internet and doesnt have local help installed but clicks on the help button in the toolbar? It links to the wiki help by opening it up in a browser. What happens when a user clicks Help > Check for Updates... and has no internet or the TDF website is down. It will show an error message. Not having internet access or the website not being available isnt a reason to not implement this feature. Error checking can be included in the code to make sure to check if internet access is available as well as the template website is accessible before attempting to get the templates. If the user doenst have free internet access, he wont likely click the 'online templates' button, and even if he does, their would be only a minimal amount of bandwidth being used to query the website and get the results (titles, descriptions, ratings, thumbnails). The query result could be encoded to save bandwidth as well. > An unusable “feature” will be present, and very > prominently. Its only unusable when you dont have internet access and it being in the template manager isnt in my view a prominent place. > We should instead work in making our Templates website actually usable, and > de-uglify it. IMNSHO. Yes i believe work should go into improving the template website to make it nicer, but having a nice template website that users are aware of doesnt help, so we should make sure users who go into the template manager in the start center or dialog see a prominent indication that there are online templates that they can access. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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