ODF Document Themes

[Jay Philips]

Hi Jaroslaw,

To my limited knowledge of how ODF works, one or more ODF softwares
creates a working feature implementation and then they are discussed by
the ODF overseeing group who standardize it for usage in the upcoming
next version of ODF. But collaborating on such a feature implementations
between ODF softwares just means that the standardization process will
take less time to finalize.

I've created a bug report that i hope will be dedicated to discussions
related to document themes on LO's side and it would be great if you
could add yourself to the CC list.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90497

We look forward to whatever assistance you have time for to make this a
reality.

Regards,
Jay Philips

On 04/07/2015 12:56 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 6 April 2015 at 22:28, Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jaroslaw,
>>
>> Thank you for the quick reply. Mirek has brought up the topic of themes
>> a number of times and most recently brought it up in the following bug
>> report.
>>
>> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90048
>>
>> Tomaz has stated in the bug report that he is interested in proceeding
>> with implementing themes into LO and it would be good for us to
>> collaborate on such efforts.
>>
>> I personally have been trying to pursue implementing something like
>> MSO's quick styles (style sets) into LO through the following bug report.
>>
>> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86039
> 
> Thanks for the update, Jay, this very discussion is a news to me,
> I agree the task isn't small. And having the feature implemented over
> a proprietary specs (in LO only for example) may be somewhat against
> the principles of the ODF proponents.
> 
> Given my current priorities, at most I am open for a light review of
> specs if they appear, that's all I can offer "from my pocket".
> Let's keep in mind that in non-classic apps/components such as Kexi
> Reports or in Forms, we would end up with ODF-like solutions as there
> are different concepts in use, e.g. no direct use of office:styles.
> 
> For the end-user similarities between themes in many apps  would be
> beneficial anyway and that is something exciting to follow.
> 
> (CC'd calligra-devel)
> 
> 
>> On 04/06/2015 11:22 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>> On 6 April 2015 at 01:07, Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello Jarosław Staniek,
>>>>
>>>> I volunteer with libreoffice design team and was pointed to your article
>>>> "Fruits of CSS2: Shared Themes" <
>>>> https://blogs.kde.org/2011/12/14/fruits-css2-shared-themes > and
>>>> wondered if you were able to achieve any of the things that you
>>>> mentioned in it.
>>>
>>> Hello Jay, thanks for contacting me, I was following your
>>> contributions to LO. Would you be able
>>> to share more context of your interest in the area of Themes?
>>>
>>> I have not succeed in reaching any parties that develop LO in order to
>>> co-develop the format or implementation. Partly because your question
>>> is the first one in this direction. There are no working groups for
>>> that if I remember correctly.
>>>
>>> As for any full time activities, I believe that a working group
>>> devoted to the format should be sponsored.
>>>
>>> It would be most rewarding if implementation is shared but also
>>> sharing concepts and some format would mean a lot.
>>>
>>> I am sorry if you meant implementation and not specification.
>>>
> 
> 
>