On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:02, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [snip] > This is not a fedora specific issue.. this is an upstream OOo project > issue... one important enough to take upstream and discuss with > upstream developers FIRST. [snip] This discussion has been taken upstream to OpenOffice.org see: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=47529 so I hope you Fedora Core developers don't mind my sharing some ideas here. I do not have any official position or responsibility within OpenOffice.org - simply a keen member of the community. I have been actively writing macros and documentation for OpenOffice.org. See: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ An initiative by Daniel Carrera has been to put together a package of templates, art and macros for OpenOffice.org. See: http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/download/contribute.html While this is a reasonable stop-gap measure, I personally don't see it as a good long term solution. My proposed idea follows. Write a template and extension installer. This is being worked on at the moment and the expertise that you people could bring to this project would be of immense value. I have put together a first attempt at a wizard to help people select available templates and extensions, and at the click of a button download and install them. The draft wizard can be found here: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43532 Part of this system is the ability for users to rate and review templates and extensions. Thus if the Fedora Core team wanted to include OpenOffice.org templates and extensions then they could use the rating and reviews and a basis for which ones to include. The idea has been positively received and expanded upon by Jürgen Schmidt a Sun employee as can seen here: http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=12326 I look forward to your discussion and input to a template and extension installer for OpenOffice.org. Thanks, Ian Laurenson
