Dear folks ! I would like to place a suggestion concerning a way to manipulate documents that might be of great interest for many LibreOffice users : the document portfolio It would be of great interest to be able to manipulate a collection of documents (texts, spreadsheets, images, slides) in a structured entity like a portfolio. Documents could be ordered inside it, with a index (optional), and manipulated each as a whole (a spreadsheet item beeing opened with the Calc universe, a slide with te Impress, and so on). The consultation/manipulation of a given portfolio would be completely homogenous (insert a new text/calc/presentation/graph/etc... in any given place, global index generation, etc...) For many users (teachers, scientists, etc...) this would reflect the way they work with elements in a given course/project, without having to deal with unordered folders and complicated meta-document surrogates (ie html file with links, wiki, ...) Thanks for your attention.
Thanks for new idea IMHO KDE and Gnome desktops already provide such functionality. Or we need something different? If so, what exactly?
Le 30/03/2012 15:22, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org a écrit : > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43904 > > sasha.libreoffice@gmail.com changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |sasha.libreoffice@gmail.com > > --- Comment #1 from sasha.libreoffice@gmail.com 2012-03-30 06:22:50 PDT --- > Thanks for new idea > IMHO KDE and Gnome desktops already provide such functionality. Or we need > something different? If so, what exactly? > Hi Sasha, thanks for your reply. I didn't knew that something similar did exists in KDE/Gnome. (I would love to have some pointers on that if you have some). I was thinking about something inherent to the libreoffice tool, in order to have it available on all platforms. The main idea is as follow : I would like to be able to organize in the same "meta-document" texts, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. I'm a scientist, and I have several kinds of documents for each project, and I need to have them organized in an ordered way, with the ability to insert a new kind of document (text, slide, spreadsheet) at any position; possibly to generate a structured index. That's why I'm refering it as a "meta-document". I don't know of the ODF specifications allows such a structure, or if it would be possible to have it extended in such a way; but I believe it would definitively be of great interest for many users.
Thanks for additional explanations. Sorry for can not help in this problem.
I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX simply because I think it's incredibly unlikely given the amount of time it would take to do and the # of users who would use this feature. I am going to at PATCHESWELCOME to the whiteboard so that any developer who has some free time can search for them and take them on. Appreciate the feedback and maybe at some point in the future we'll have a big enough team to tackle bigger enhancements like this one in a timely fashion.
So LO cannot implement the Binder functionality from 1995. *clap* *clap*
@Ulma -- we are open to you joining the project and getting it done if you feel like it'd be such an improvement for the project and easy to implement. With thousands of bugs, hundreds of enhancement requests and only 370 people who have contributed code (people who contribute regularly is much much less), implementing this is simply unrealistic. Furthermore, with only a total of 2 people showing a desire to have it (ie. commenting on it over the course of 7 months), seems unlikely that many people feel like this feature is really desired and/or missed. Being rude about it (ie. "clap clap") doesn't get us anywhere. If you know how to code, feel free to implement this, if you don't, maybe take a couple classes and then you can help us by taking on some of these projects which you find to be important. Lastly, I purposely left PATCHESWELCOME in the whiteboard so that if a developer has the desire, they can pick it up, I just didn't want to leave it in limbo for years.
Dear Joel, I perfectly understand your point, and sadly I'm not in a position where I can contribute to the project (not enough programming skills). If in a (improbable) future such an enhancement would appear, I'm quite sure it would be of some interest for many users (at least the scientist would/should); and would be a remarkable feature unique to LibreOffice. Thanks for your
I understand and I know we get a lot of requests for features that if implemented might be useful for a group of users. It is sad that we have to pass up on some good ideas because of a true lack of skilled programmers. This is precisely why I put PATCHESWELCOME. At some point in the future we may have a lot more programmers (hopefully :) ) and then these kinds of projects can be picked up. I am currently working on an idea to bring in programmers to the project. If it works out, I'll make sure to remember this particular request. Thanks for your understanding