On Monday 07 February 2005 02:34, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > OOo has (and its closed source predecessor StarOffice had a long time > ago already) a useful feature: the gallery. > > Wouldn't it be nice to have something similar for scribus? I figure it > could be some hell of of a work, because picture frames would have to be > created automatically. On the other hand, having all graphics files for > a project or a set of standard graphics handy could save a lot of time. > > I recently integrated OpenClipart 0.9 into my OOo and it's simply great > - just drag a graphics file into your document. For a DTP app, a gallery > would of course need a more sophisticated approach, e.g. the ability to > define a default collection and to create a file/project dependent one. > The library function allows for the latter already, but in terms of > usability, a gallery would, at least IMHO, provide a handy extension > (think about something like: draw picture frame -> right click -> insert > picture from gallery). > > I observed some recent discussions on using the grey space for similiar > features, but this is another approach which may be worth to be discussed.
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