OpenOffice.org extras - again

[Frank smith]

Hi
If we need clipart we should be able to download it.
It shouldn't be a part of the package.


Cheers
Bob







On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:16 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 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
>