[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113858] Remove color palettes Breeze, Tango and LibreOffice

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113858

--- Comment #7 from Thomas Lendo <thomas.lendo at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #5)
> I strongly disagree with this fashion to remove existing functionalities
> under the pretext that they are used by less than 100% of the users.
Same could be asked in discussions about specific feature removal e.g. in the
wiki. It's the decision of ESC or a group of developers regardless who or how
many people are actually using a feature.

I'm also against hasty feature removal because only some people pretend to know
that a feature is useless. BUT I haven't read/found any single explanation who
the users are who need these palettes.

For every single enhancement request in Bugzilla, people ask for whom this
enhancement would be a benefit and if it can be better added as extension
instead of in-built. Is this question not allowed for specific palettes?

> Please describe the gain for:
> 1/ existing normal users
Normal users don't use Breeze color palette I really assume. Do normal users
use another palette than "standard"?

> 2/ advanced users and contributers
LibreOffice help/marketing documents already have the used colors in their
documents. Why is an extra LibreOffice color palette necessary? And if it's
necessary because of some LibO marketing documents, why all the millions of
LibO users must have this palette in their installation too?

> 3/ new users willing to discover what possibilities LibreOffice can offer
What possibilities are Breeze, Tango and LibreOffice color palettes offering to
users?

> Please give numbers proving that "Other palettes give normal users enough
> choices" and that "palettes are only interesting for few people"
Changing the whole default color palettes some LibO versions ago was no
problem? But now it is a problem to remove the smallest palettes?

> Please attach to this bug report an extension enabling the palette you want
> to remove.
With https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/custom-palette-eport you can
make a palette extension. It will be no problem for me or Jay or Heiko to make
such extensions for the removed palettes. Extensions should be offered for
these palettes indeed.

> and, as for dictionaries, a menu entry must be added to search
> new palettes on the extensions website. 
Right. Why didn't that happen long before when the palette extension
possibility was added to LibO?

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