Including OO templates in fc4

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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