I would like to suggest that we move the personas in the Tools->Options section and place it as a button on the Tools menu. This will allow users to personalize their own LibreOffice look more like what they want without having to search for the function.
Sorry, I should have added, a nice place for it would be under the Gallery link. Marc :-)
Kendy - I think this is your area? Do we need to get UX involved?
confirming - it's certainly a request for an enhancement ;-) to get it off the unconfirmed list [ hope that's the right thing to do ].
Is this enhancement still relevant? Personas / Firefox themes are in an easy to find option dialog. I propose to close this enhancement as WONTFIX. What do you think? Best regards. JBF
I still think that it would be best put in a more logical place where users would be able to find it. Even if it were put in the "Tools->Customize". Actually, when using the FR interface, "Customize" was translated to "Personalize" which is even more appealing a place to put the personas tool. We need to make this fun and sexy tool more accessible to users so that they can start "trading" their personal fravorite personas with each other. I must say that now that I look at the EN interface, I am not so sure if the "Customize" word should be better changed to "Personalize" as that section is all about personalizing your LibreOffice to the way that you want it to work. I like the FR translation better. Frankly, we should even be talking about this more about the trading and people's favorite personas on the users lists so that we can create a culture of personas trading with our suite -- this make our suite really fun and sexy to use. Marc
I am an enthusiastic user of Personas, but create and use them for our home use. Firefox and Thunderbird allow a user to add a user's own Personas without going through the hassle of using the Personas Theme Website, just like changing the desktop background. CUSTOM PERSONAS > EDIT > Header, Footer filename, Text Accent Colours. For example, my wife likes to have a choice of her own current textile fabric design. this is easy and fun with Firefox / Thunderbird but need me to copy and rename files for LibO as it is not simple. Some companies are also careful about in-house themes being kept in-house. I do not know whether it would be simple to enhance your current support to add this feature, but I believe it would add to the fun of using Personas, and hence the human face of LibO.
With the new changes to Persona support in 4.4.0.0 I think it is a good time to re-focus on the benefits of adding support for managing Persona directly on LibreOffice just as you can with Firefox and Thunderbird in addition to the on-line Firefox support currently provided. This would allow both private and business users to personalise their LibO, adding that little bit of glitter to LibO. In the same way that a desktop with your own image is yours rather than some background provided by the system. I personally do not download any Persona from the system as I use my own. So I have to go through the hassle of downloading an unwanted persona from Firefox when I install LibreOffice on a friends system and then modify the .xcu file. This takes away the easy to install look for LibO... I realise we may just be a minority, but who knows..Peter
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