OpenOffice.org extras - again

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Mon Mar 14 08:16:52 UTC 2005


there was some recent talk about including additional templates in 
OpenOffice.org as distributed by Fedora: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-March/msg00478.html
the discuss was expanded later to other extras, like clipart.

it appears other distributors are doing exactly this: add a lot of 
extras to their version of OOo, for example Novell is planning to 
include images from the Open Clip Art Library: 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/clipart/2005-March/002539.html

someone has created a rpm which probably  will go in Fedora Extras 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-March/msg00566.html 
but IMO, something better is needed: integration - either include the 
clip art images in an OOo gallery using the patch from Novell or modify 
the OOo menu, adding a new item Insert->Pictures->Clipart which will 
point to the location of the installed images.

also i think is worth judging the usefulness of including a *selection* 
of clipart in Core (i know in FC5 will not matter much if a package is 
in Core or Extras, this is about the next release, FC4).
my take is: including clipart in the default install can benefit the 
overall value of the desktop, but also the size constraints should be 
considered.

-- 
nicu




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