Theme colors

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Forwarding an excerpt from the thread with my conclusion for the near future:

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From: Mirek M. <mazelm at gmail.com>
Date: 14 March 2013 00:25

Sorry for the late response -- I promise I will have the Engineering
Steering Committee's answer for you tomorrow.

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From: Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Themes
To: "Mirek M." <mazelm at gmail.com>
Cc: kendy <kendy at novell.com>, Thorsten Behrens <tbehrens at novell.com>

Hi Mirek,

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 20:33 +0100, Mirek M. wrote:
> I wasn't able to attend today's ESC call and the minutes were quite
> vague, so I'd like to clear a few things up. For context, I'm quoting
> the relevant part of Jaroslaw Staniek's message:

        Yep - so - my hope would be that around June we will have 3x interns
inside SUSE one of whom may be interested in working on this - indeed we
could sketch that out.

>         The code for Themes has not landed in
>         Calligra only because of not-the-highest-priority but since
>         then I
>         heard encouraging comments and no disagreement so we shall
>         finally
>         have them. If this fits LibreOffice plans we can co-develop
>         the
>         design/specifications so we'll be compatible (e.g. we can
>         share theme

[..]
there is no problem in collaborating around file-formats and the
specification thereof etc.
Clearly a major focus of what we do needs to be round-trip
interoperability - so we can load/save these to MS formats with no data
loss.

>         files and properly embed them in documents/templates, staying
>         backward-compatible with not-theme-aware software). In
>         addition to
>         defining some extensions to ODF, the specs would be in large
>         part
>         related to behaviour of the applications. I also hope some
>         relevant functional/unit tests could be shared.

        Sounds reasonable.

>         As a first step I propose a common wiki page (is there neutral
>         one or would you accept Calligra Wiki?)

        I don't actually care where the spec. is developed / discussed.

> Are we interested in working together on a spec?
> What kind of UI/design work would this require up front?

        As for the UI design - then, yes - it would be great to a) get the
results of the Calligra thoughts already - hopefully they've done a good
compatibility analysis; and b) to get a UI design to see this integrated
into LibreOffice nicely.

        So - yes, it's certainly worth putting some effort into this - Kendy -
do you think we could persuade one intern to work on this ?

        Thoughts ?


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From: Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org>
Date: 16 March 2013 09:54
Subject: Re: Theme colors
To: "Mirek M." <mazelm at gmail.com>

Thanks for the update. Yes, round-trip with MSOOXML is one
requirement, though backward compatibility with ODF 1.2 or older (and
thus, DOC) is important too, and can be achieved by by copying theme
items into actual styles.

As for the schedule, there's nothing precise because the feature while
important ... it's absence does not stop users from actually being
productive.

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