+1 I am all for extra themes. My only concern is the size, at some point, we might consider, making an "extra" package, like with languages.
Jan. On 26 November 2012 14:44, Armin Le Grand <armin.le.gr...@me.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I took a closer look at Symphony's checked in ressources concerning the > gallery. There are quite some nice and useful additional themes there we > (and our users) should benefit from. Thus, I propose (and volunteer :-) to > integrate these to the trunk. Please have a look at a current Symphony > version or look at the provides symphony sourcecode to get an impression > (it's in main/extras/source/gallery). The added themes are: > > arrows > bullets > computers > diagrams > education > environment > finance > gallery_sound > gallery_system > people > sounds > symbols > transportation > txtshapes > > The currently existing themes in trunk are: > > bullets > gallery_sound > gallery_system > htmpexpo > rulers > sounds > ww-back > www-graf > > Where bullets, gallery_sound, gallery_system and sounds are double. I > propose to just merge the contents. (gallery_sound and gallery_system are > hidden, internal themes). For info: ww-back and www-graf are also hidden > themes which are used in Writer's www export. > > I think these themes are useful for a wide variety of users and I will try > to just merge them smoothly to have these available. > > All contents are in png format (not yet svg) with transparencies and offer > quite some useful stuff. We should have them in that format for now, > conversion to SVG is not realistic due to many contained gradients. For > adding future themes I propose to use svg, but for now we should use what > we have. Same is true for evtl. later add online data access for the > gallery for clipart libraries (which support svg). But one step after the > other... > > I'm currently inverstigating on the issue (wrote #121407# for it, see > there) and will report how much size it would add to download packages. > > Suggestions welcome! > > Sincerely, > Armin > -- > ALG >
