Theme colors

[Lassi Nieminen]

This would be excellent.

The filters have so many ugly solutions trying to work around this issue
currently.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:

> Forwarding an excerpt from the thread with my conclusion for the near
> future:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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 ?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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