Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72005
Allowing language selection from Templates and documents dialog
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:55:29 UTC
Currently, creating document from templates in different language than UI language is not possible. You have to change the language of UI. If you have templates sorted into proper language folders, you can not open them when you select another UI language for OpenOffice.org. To solve this problem we should place a dropdown box with the currently available (template) languages in Templates and Documents dialogbox where the users can select the desired language of templates. We might use default and language name options as in UI language selection. The selected option should be remembered.
TM->requirements: please have a look, thanks !
I will add this to the wiki spec for the templates dialog. This is a requirement that can create some problems as we must change the path settings for templates then. So possibly this is nothing for a minor version, but let's see.
The general idea is fine for me, I also wanted to have this feature for quite some time but I know about the problems and the effort to implement it.
As this is an incompatible change in the templates structure I set the target to 3.0
What are the problems about implementation?
As I wrote: it is incompatible; the templates component inherently assumes that there is only a "current" language. Changing this would force us to rework the code but also the directory structure. This will need some migration code that usually is done only in major releases.
Can we provide this feature for 3.0? I hope yes. We need template language selector also we need a "container" thet holds languange independent templates such as layouts and others.
We didn't have the necessary resources to work on that. Perhaps other developers might find some time, I don't have it ATM.
What, how should we do and where?
I think it's too late for 3.0 anyway (code freeze is in 4 weeks). This is not an easy task as not only the dialog must be changed but also the whole component for managing templates, its configuration schema etc. This component is implemented in sfx2/source/doc: doctempl.cxx doctemplates.cxx doctemplateslocal.cxx
Can we set up a team to provide this feature? I think this is general issue in multi lingual environments.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".