Hi Bjoern,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/5/20 Bjoern Michaelsen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com" target="_blank">bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 03:44:09PM +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote:<br>
&gt; here&#39;s the Wiki page: <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Ubuntu_Templates" target="_blank">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Ubuntu_Templates</a><br>
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I assume the development has moved elsewhere in the meantime?<br></blockquote><div><br>Kind of. There&#39;s a call for CC0/public domain templates going on right now at <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates</a> . The CC0 license has been chosen to allow for any use of the templates (without the presenter having to mention the author&#39;s name or being restricted by copyleft or into using the templates with only our software).<br>
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Anyway, upstream feature freeze for 3.6 is closing (2012-06-04) in:<br>
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 <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#3.6_release" target="_blank">http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#3.6_release</a><br>
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so I would like to have integrated whatever we have right now and replace the<br>
old default masterpages with them, because frankly: they are _really_ ugly. I<br>
am talking about these:<br>
<br>
 <a href="http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/extras/source/templates/layout/" target="_blank">http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/extras/source/templates/layout/</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div>I agree.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
@Alexander Wilms: The typography templates at<br>
<a href="http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/typography" target="_blank">http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/typography</a> look beautiful and<br>
I would like to make them a replacement for the biggest and most ugly of the<br>
current templates, which are:<br>
<br>
1.1M May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-book.otp<br>
706K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-forest.otp<br>
690K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-paper.otp<br>
639K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-glacier.otp<br>
638K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-wine.otp<br>
<br>
which in all their ugliness do not justify the space they eat in the default<br>
install. Any objections to that?</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Do we have any more masterpages we could use to replace the ones above? As<br>
frankly, the current ones are _really_ ugly -- so even if want you have is not<br>
perfect, it is likely better than what we would ship with now (after replacing<br>
the above 5 templates there would still be 25 of the old ones left).<br></blockquote><div><br>Take a look at the wiki page mentioned above: <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates#Submissions">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates#Submissions</a><br>
These should all be licensed under CC0. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The &quot;vintage&quot;, &quot;fresh and serious&quot;, &quot;Rounded Rectagles&quot; and &quot;Hexagons&quot;<br>
templates do not look too bad too me. Does anybody know the authors and can<br>
ping them if it is ok to directly include their work under MPL/LGPLv3+?<br></blockquote><div><br>I believe most of that (except &quot;Rounded Rectangles&quot;) is Alex&#39;s work, too. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

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Best,<br>
<br>
Bjoern<br>
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P.S.: At UDS we talked about moving &quot;our&quot; templates to an universe package.<br>
Back then I was talking about these templates:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git;a=tree;f=ubuntu;h=4d6fb808aed6d29944bc4980aae9ce3401e85ec1;hb=refs/heads/ubuntu-oneiric-3.4" target="_blank">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git;a=tree;f=ubuntu;h=4d6fb808aed6d29944bc4980aae9ce3401e85ec1;hb=refs/heads/ubuntu-oneiric-3.4</a><br>

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however, given how ugly and big these upstream masterpages are:<br>
<br>
506K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-keyboard.otp<br>
496K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-water.otp<br>
491K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-rededges.otp<br>
321K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-numdark.otp<br>
306K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-techpoly.otp<br>
286K May 19 21:57 extras/source/templates/layout/lyt-bluegrey.otp<br>
<br>
we could replace those 6 upstream with the ones from Ubuntu (excluding the<br>
explicitly Ubuntu-branded one), which are not exactly beautiful, but better<br>
that the defaults upstream. With that we would have 11 new masterpages upstream<br>
(leaving us with 25-11=14 old ones we would still need to replace). Opinions?<br></blockquote><div><br>I&#39;m all for it, though we would need to convince the authors to release these under CC0.<br></div></div>