Hi Michel, everyone, On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Michel Renon <michel.re...@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Le 10/05/2013 17:06, Cor Nouws a écrit : > > Hi all, >> >> Worked myself through the list with template related issues and - apart >> from all great progress - found a few that are still open. And with 4.1 >> approaching rapidly... >> 60589 - [Template manager]: Can not copy styles between different files >> and templates >> >> > I would say that the only one being able to work on that is Mirek : as he > strongly designed the new Template Manager, he must know how to do that. > *why is Mirek silent for such a long time on this subject ?* > > As I really don't understand how the new Template Manager was designed, I > absolutely have no idea how to correct that bug in the new Template Manager. > So, a few things to clear up: * I've been silent because I have been missing my own computer. (For the past month or so, I've been borrowing computers and it was quite hard to be productive.) That's been solved yesterday. * The way the template manager is now is miles away from the proposed design. The proposed design was a simple iCloud/Gnome Documents-like template launcher with a two level hierarchy. [1][2] The current implementation is a more conventional complex Explorer-like file manager with unlimited hierarchy. Given that I wasn't in favor of the shift in focus to organizing templates rather than creating new documents from templates, I'm not the best person to design for the dialog. > > My only proposal is based on something existing : > (I just saw it has already been proposed by Raphael on 09/04/2013) > in the "Styles & Formatting" window, there are buttons on top. In Writer, > there is even a popup with an action "Load Styles..." : > It opens a dialog that has nearly what you need : > - the list of categories of templates, then the list of templates > - it can copy some styles from the selected template to the current > document. > > My idea is to simply extend it by integrating code from old template > manager (v3.6). As those dialogs seems similar, I suppose it should not > require a complete rewrite. > > Then, maybe add this action ("Load Styles...") in "Styles & Formatting" > for Calc, Impress and Draw. > > > If you think it might be a solution, then I can make a more precise > proposal. The dialog seems to support only a two level hierarchy, so it's not compatible with the current template manager folder structure. I would propose just having separate "Load Styles from Template" and "Load Styles from File" entries in the Styles and Formatting menu, with the former launching the Template manager, but without a toolbar and with "Cancel" and "Load" buttons at the bottom right, and the latter launching the Open dialog. > 61396 - FILEOPEN: [Template Manager]Possibility to edit a template that >> is not in the repository, is lacking >> >> > I saw a comment with the proposal : > "when a user does "Open" from the "File" menu and selects a template, then > LO should open the template" ; instead of creating a new file from the > template". > It seems to be a coherent behavior : the user selects the command "open" > so LO must open. When the user selects "new from template", then LO must > create a new file from a template. > Sounds good. > > If you really want to prevent modification of bad file, maybe add an > dialog asking confirmation : "Do you really want to open the template > 'test.ott' ? or create a new file from this template ?" > Perhaps an infobar might be better? > > and related >> 59427 - [Template Manager] low discoverability of new template manager >> - we could use "File → Organize templates" menu >> > > I agree > [1] http://ia.net/blog/mountain-lions-new-file-system/ [2] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents
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