Including OO templates in fc4

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Mar 5 17:50:51 UTC 2005


lør, 05.03.2005 kl. 16.49 skrev Josh Boyer:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:08 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > To many people (lacking artistic skill etc), templates really makes it
> > simpler to create documents (presentations especially). But none of
> > those are included in our distribution of OpenOffice, our main office
> > suite. Maybe it should?
> > 
> > I don't know whats included in upstream OO, but at least there are some
> > templates to be found at http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > I know that we are aleady pushed for space, but including a few kb's of
> > templates to the huge package OO already is, seems nothing but
> > reasonable, especially considering the end-user benefit.
> 
> I think this is a Fedora Extras candidate.  Entire packages that are
> only a few KiBs are being pushed out to Extras, so I don't think we want
> to add anything that isn't needed to the core OO package.
> 
> Now you just need to find a maintainer.  You could even volunteer to do
> it yourself on the fedora-extras list.
> 
> josh

I probably could, but i simply just don't think this is an extras
candidate. Users simply expect templates to be there, or at least a box
"you need to install xxx from yyy to get templates".




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