[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing extensions

Le 14/10/2013 21:02, Ken Springer a écrit :

Hi Ken,
> I say this because I thought I read in a help file somewhere all you had
> to do was place the extension in that folder and restart LO.  Which
> didn't work.  LOL  So, went to find said help file, now I can't.  That's
> not good.  <sigh>

I'm not convinced that this actually works, but am willing to be proved 
wrong. The way extension installation and registration worked (still 
works ?) was that active registration was required. In other words, the 
Extension Manager (and unopkg) did the work of actively registering the 
extension within the LO application framework. There was a change during 
4.x development to switch some extensions to passive registration, 
perhaps that was the sense of what you read somewhere (I can only think 
of the developer's list or dev wiki for that, but I don't know my way 
around everything within LO).

At present, current development (in the master repo) has focussed on 
having the LO project built-in extensions use a particular prefix to 
separate those extensions that are built "natively" and those that have 
to be added by the user/admin. I don't really understand the what or the 
why behind it as I'm not a developer, but have been trying to follow 
that on the dev mailing list.


> I don't follow today's norm for data/file storage on my computers.  Both
> this Mac and all the Windows machines I own, I create that storage
> somewhere else other than the OS partition.

I have tried that in the past, but on OSX, the LO application is an 
application bundle, and if you don't install an extension into the main 
app corresponding directory, then you have to be able to make sure that 
the user installation directory is visible to the main app. As the user 
profile config is stored in
/Application Support/LibreOffice

or whatever name I choose to call it, provided it matches the name of my 
LO app, I'm not sure if that still works if your user profile config 
folder is stored somewhere else. Certainly, I see no scope for that 
working with the main app bundle extensions directory, as I'm assuming, 
perhaps wrongly, that this is hardcoded.


> I missed that earlier.  They just *had* to make it small text, they
> couldn't have made it a button????  Developers and web site designers
> have forgotten how to design for total newbies, which is how I look at
> all software, web sites, and OS interfaces.  As if today, humans are not
> born with the computer knowledge and skills many developers and web site
> designers seem to take for granted all users have.

Oh I agree that LO is far from having an intuitve interface. The problem 
is that we all beg to differ on what an intuitive UI should be like. 
Current thinking in the LO UX (user experience) group, if I understand 
correctly, is to adhere to the Elementary OS HMI guidelines :

http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/human-interface-guidelines

Whether that thinking will move things along in the direction you would 
like, I really have no idea.


Alex



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