Hi guys, I've recently been working on enabling embedding palettes / bitmaps / gradients / etc. into ODF documents - and I've implemented import/export for all of that [ only for impress currently ]. I just pushed a change adding a check-box to allow the user to configure this embedding to master (cf. attached screenshot "[X] Embed"). Of course, when you start to look at the 'Area' dialog - you begin to wonder why this is the place used to configure the choice of palette (and all these other attributes) in random tabs for the document - and not for the specific area you selected. That seems rather non-intuitive to me :-) In an ideal world, we'd have some (easy to implement) central place for embedding things into the document: perhaps File->Properties or some equivalent that would show you: * embedded palette, fill bitmap, hatch, line-dash etc. * embedded media files [ I'll try to dig into this next ;-] * embedded gallery [ also a wish-list ] * embedded related data files [ deep-future wish-list ] And some nice linking mechanism 'configure palette' or whatever that would take the user there from the 'Area' dialog (?) Anyhow - testing / thoughts / ideas appreciated. There are still some slightly rough corners in the interactions there, palettes think they are modified when they are not first time but ... Hopefully it'll be in the next tinderbox build to play with, and I plan to extend it to all these tabs (for now). All the best, Michael. -- michael.meeks@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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