Theme colors

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 20 March 2013 09:12, Lassi Nieminen <lassniem at gmail.com> wrote:
> This would be excellent.
>
> The filters have so many ugly solutions trying to work around this issue
> currently.

Ah, could you share your thoughts on the topic and any ugly cases?

>
> 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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