[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 30744] New: Deprecate the gallery

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Sun Oct 10 12:17:58 CEST 2010


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30744

           Summary: Deprecate the gallery
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: libreoffice
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: floss at glokal.eu


Under Tools->Gallery a feature exists that provides a thumbnail overview of
images in pre-defined folders. For some reason these folders are called
"themes". While this gallery would have been quite useful in the early stages
of OpenOffice/StarOffice when a decent file manager or image browser was not
necessarily present in the OS, nowadays, Windows, OS X and Linux all provide
this. 

Therefore, I'm proposing removing this feature, making inserting images more
prominent and possibly later tweaking the system file open dialog somewhat to
better display images in that context.

Some have used this gallery in combination with OpenClipart but an extension
that performs a live search would, in my opinion, be more beneficial for those
users.

If there is a chance that this feature could be removed in its entirety, I'd be
more than happy to try to work on a patch to remove it. 

If that is not a possibility, I'd strongly urge that at the very least all the
currently supplied images (such as in "backgrounds", "rulers" or "homepage")
are removed due to their extremely dated look and feel.

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