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Hi Astron, hi Michael, all!

Thanks for your thoughts ... just one comment.

Am Mittwoch, den 14.09.2011, 21:49 +0200 schrieb Astron:
Hi.

Before making a suggestion, her are three questions:
1. What's the file size penalty for embedded palettes?
2. Are there possible privacy concerns when embedding, e.g., patterns?
3. Does your addition embed the entire palette or does it make a diff
against the default palette?

If the answers go something like "typically 2 KB or less (depending on
what the user adds)," "not really" and "a diff," then this would be my
suggestion: embed it and don't add anything to the UI.
We should aim for maximum document fidelity and if a document has the
wrong colours on a different LibO installation, that doesn't really
help.

Otherwise:
      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 ;-]

Shouldn't that work already? (The last time I tried there was a bug
where video clips would only play if they weren't embedded into the
document, nevertheless you could embed them.)


      * embedded gallery [ also a wish-list ]
      * embedded related data files [ deep-future wish-list ]

Sure, but here each solution will sub-optimal, since we miss an easy way
to separate "document" and "meta data". One thing that's really cool in
Office 2010 is the backstage view doing that nicely ... at the moment,
the File Properties dialog seems to fit best ...

I sadly don't see a good place for this in the dialogue today (but in
general I agree with your train of thought). The setting would
probably have to live on a new tab there. However, we will have to
live with the fact that users won't expect the setting there.

As a makeshift measure, maybe you could add a checkbox ("Embed palette
into current document") to "Options > LibreOffice > Colors." (I know
this is an extremely awful solution and I don't like it myself, but I
think it conforms to LibO's slightly crazy current logic.)

Yep, it would conform to that "craziness" ... but I skipped this
solution for two reasons:
      * Options > LibreOffice > Colors doesn't allow loading / saving of
        palettes, so embedding it from here might make less sense.
      * This options page is only available for colors - Michael talked
        about gradients / hatches / ...

Still, no easy solution, only:
      * extending the Document Preferences dialog
      * extending the Edit - Links... dialog
      * create something new

Okay, could you please (if there is no quick solution) rename the
checkbox to "Embed into document" (or something like that) and move it
to the lower right?

Agree, that makes it more understandable.

Cheers,
Christoph


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