Bug 131245

Summary: Gallery: add SmartArt gallery theme
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: andreas_k <kainz.a>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: heiko.tietze, kainz.a, michael.meeks, vmiklos
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 99671    
Attachments: SmartArt.odg WIP proposal

Description andreas_k 2020-03-09 19:39:20 UTC
Created attachment 158524 [details]
SmartArt.odg WIP proposal

Have something like SmartArt shapes for LibreOffice. They want be smart but should work for 80% of our users need and flexible enough to extend or remove items.
Comment 1 ian 2020-03-10 11:28:10 UTC
Thank you for creating this proposal.

I have marked the severity of this report as "enhancement."
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2020-03-11 13:15:32 UTC
Don't know if SmartArt should go into the gallery. Miklos, what do you think?
Comment 3 Miklos Vajna 2020-03-12 08:20:48 UTC
Thanks Andreas for the nice shapes, this is really useful!

Heiko: I guess it's too early to talk about that. The SmartArt problem is a large one, it's necessary to break it down into smaller sub-tasks. Editing existing SmartArt is an easier problem, and not yet solved. Once that's in place, we can start thinking about adding some kind of preset/gallery to create new SmartArt as well.

The smartart markup in OOXML is really complex, it's not yet clear what's the best way to represent smartarts in ODF documents.

We may want to call this Diagram on the UI, though. The spec uses that term.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2020-03-12 09:47:55 UTC
So let's wait with the patch until SmartArt editing is implemented. Bringing these images into the Gallery is very confusing.
Comment 5 andreas_k 2020-03-12 09:57:18 UTC
ok I would go the other way around, but no problem I can upload an extension and the good thing is that I don't have to finish my work. It's a lot of time to do all the drawings correct.
Comment 6 andreas_k 2020-03-12 13:38:33 UTC
As in the Diagramme gallery there are "SmartArt" images in there I recommend to update the diagram gallery to use LibreOffice shapes instead of have there colored images which you can't change.

As it's only an update of diagram gallery the name smartArt was never in mind and I think it's possible to update.

In addition my hope is that SmartArt can use gallery items.