On Lun 7 mars 2005 3:24, Ian Laurenson a écrit : > 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. Please don't. I can understand lots of other OSs have big problems distributing stuff but Linux distributions haven't. Modern Linux distributions are all package-based. On a package-based system any stuff not installed via the native packaging system is a cause of much annoyance and grief. I could write you a long list of other "extension" auto-download systems that are already hated on FC (CPAN, Maven, emacs/xemacs, firefox extensions, etc...) Please focus on making good themes available. People will take care of the rest. As the firefox example showed not only auto-download systems are useless but they actually cause big problems because stuff is not installable in a normal way without human intervention anymore (among other things - I won't went all my frustration with them here) I know for developpers types hacking another system is much more fun than producing booring stuff like templates. In this case I'm pretty sure a lot of people would prefer you fix something else in openoffice.org instead of inflicting yet another auto-downloader/installer on us. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
