Including OO templates in fc4

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:50:51 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> 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".

Users expect which templates to be there?  You could problably make a
case for a few very specific templates.. IF upstream oo.org also
includes them.  But you certaintly can't argue that all possible extra
oo.org templates need to be in Core.

In fact.. i regard templates as being similar to something like a
theme or a skin or a background. The vast majority of these things
should not be in Core... the vast majority shouldn't even be in system
packages at all and probably should be installed into a user's home
directory as user data instead of system data.  The thought of
downloading all possible templates in one package disturbs me as much
as the thought of having seperate packages for each template makes me
ill.

A dialog box on how to get templates is something that you should talk
to upstream oo.org about implementing.

-jef"it will be fun when someone writes a macro script to generate
randomized impress templates and submits them every hour to
ooextras"spaleta