<div dir="ltr">Hi Michel, everyone,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Michel Renon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel.renon@free.fr" target="_blank">michel.renon@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Le 10/05/2013 17:06, Cor Nouws a écrit :<div class="im"><br>
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Hi all,<br>
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Worked myself through the list with template related issues and - apart<br>
from all great progress - found a few that are still open. And with 4.1<br>
approaching rapidly...<br>
60589 - [Template manager]: Can not copy styles between different files<br>
and templates<br>
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I would say that the only one being able to work on that is Mirek : as he strongly designed the new Template Manager, he must know how to do that.<br>
*why is Mirek silent for such a long time on this subject ?*<br>
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As I really don't understand how the new Template Manager was designed, I absolutely have no idea how to correct that bug in the new Template Manager.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, a few things to clear up:<br>
</div><div>* I've been silent because I have been missing my own computer. (For the past month or so, I've been borrowing computers and it was quite hard to be productive.) That's been solved yesterday.<br></div>
<div>* The way the template manager is now is miles away from the proposed design. The proposed design was a simple iCloud/Gnome Documents-like template launcher with a two level hierarchy. [1][2] The current implementation is a more conventional complex Explorer-like file manager with unlimited hierarchy. Given that I wasn't in favor of the shift in focus to organizing templates rather than creating new documents from templates, I'm not the best person to design for the dialog.<br>
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My only proposal is based on something existing :<br>
(I just saw it has already been proposed by Raphael on 09/04/2013)<br>
in the "Styles & Formatting" window, there are buttons on top. In Writer, there is even a popup with an action "Load Styles..." :<br>
It opens a dialog that has nearly what you need :<br>
- the list of categories of templates, then the list of templates<br>
- it can copy some styles from the selected template to the current document.<br>
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My idea is to simply extend it by integrating code from old template manager (v3.6). As those dialogs seems similar, I suppose it should not require a complete rewrite.<br>
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Then, maybe add this action ("Load Styles...") in "Styles & Formatting" for Calc, Impress and Draw.<br>
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If you think it might be a solution, then I can make a more precise proposal.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The dialog seems to support only a two level hierarchy, so it's not compatible with the current template manager folder structure.<br>
</div><div>I would propose just having separate "Load Styles from Template" and "Load Styles from File" entries in the Styles and Formatting menu, with the former launching the Template manager, but without a toolbar and with "Cancel" and "Load" buttons at the bottom right, and the latter launching the Open dialog.<br>
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61396 - FILEOPEN: [Template Manager]Possibility to edit a template that<br>
is not in the repository, is lacking<br>
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I saw a comment with the proposal :<br>
"when a user does "Open" from the "File" menu and selects a template, then LO should open the template" ; instead of creating a new file from the template".<br>
It seems to be a coherent behavior : the user selects the command "open" so LO must open. When the user selects "new from template", then LO must create a new file from a template.<br></blockquote><div>
<br><div>Sounds good.</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If you really want to prevent modification of bad file, maybe add an dialog asking confirmation : "Do you really want to open the template 'test.ott' ? or create a new file from this template ?"<br></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps an infobar might be better? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
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and related<br>
59427 - [Template Manager] low discoverability of new template manager<br>
- we could use "File → Organize templates" menu<br>
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I agree<br></blockquote><div><br>[1] <a href="http://ia.net/blog/mountain-lions-new-file-system/">http://ia.net/blog/mountain-lions-new-file-system/</a><br>[2] <a href="https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents">https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents</a><br>
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