OpenOffice.org extras - again

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

Some minimal stuff should be there - a few templates, a few cliparts
etc. When you need them, you do often not have the time needed to go
searching for them...

man, 14.03.2005 kl. 11.16 skrev Frank smith:
> Hi
> If we need clipart we should be able to download it.
> It shouldn't be a part of the package.
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> Cheers
> Bob
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> 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
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > -- 
> > nicu
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