[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Template manager : feedback

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 17:19 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
> Hi Cedric, Mirek,
> 
> On 14 December 2012 12:24, Mirek M. <mazelm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Thus, a path bar would be largely unnecessary, as it would only show a
> >> > single item. Also, there would no longer be an easy way to rename a
> >> > folder (at least, if it acted like a traditional path bar).
> >>
> >> I'm about to change the whole implementation to have it support several
> >> levels. The restriction for the templates storage is on the templates
> >> management class from LibreOffice (already there before), but at least
> >> we'll be able to handle all remote repositories without problem.
> 
> This doesn't really make sense to me, the current one-folder-level
> restriction absolutely makes sense in the context of Templates. (And
> in many other contexts, it does too.)
> Please don't sacrifice 80% of our users for the 5% sado-masochists
> that like organising things into folders. Ooo/LibO developers have
> made these kinds of compromises for a very long time and the result is
> that users flee when they see LibO.

I'm not intending to change the one-level hierarchy for local
templates... only to have the template manager able to show more because
who knows how the remote repositories will be structured?

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Cedric