Deepankar Datta wrote: [snip: Separate download including templates, clipart, etc]
> This sounds like quite a good idea of getting extra tools and templates > out to end users. It would benefit them greatly. :-D > The problem lies in organising this. While it should be relatively > easy to get a link put on the download page, what EXACTLY will be put > in this package. What templates would you use, and who would choose > this? We don't have enough templates for this to be a problem. :-) Take a look at my latest mockup: http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/download/contribute2.html Here I've separated the extras into groups. Each download is about 10 MB. Not so big. The templates one has every template in the Docs project, plust about half from OOExtras, plus 13 that Shoshannah sent me separately. > Also I'm not sure about ClipArt in such a package - would that not > bloat it to quite large levels? You don't have to include *every* image. Just include a sampling that's large enough to be appealing, but not so large to be bloat. In the sample above, the clip art download is 10 MB and contains 540 images. Surely that's a significant improvement over what OOo currently has. > Maybe a tie-up with ??OpenClipArt?? to > get some sort of redirection to them if needed? It's be good to provide a package of PNGs. At least until OOo can read SVG files. Remember that this package is for newbies. Expert users can be expected to use OpenClipArt's search feature, and run a script with Inkscape to get the PNGs. But for newbies that's a lot to ask. In a similar vein, the Photos package contains a sampling of 81 photos. I resized them down to 1024x768 to keep the download size reasonable. I also added a user guide download. And again, I didn't include every chapter. I just picked a sample of 22. Enough to be useful, but not so much to bloat. Tell me what you think. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
