LibreOffice Design Team

Topic of last week’s Libreoffice design session was the integration of content management interoperability services (CMIS). Here is the outcome of this meeting.

This article was posted first on 2015-Mar-19 at user-prompt.com (site closed now)

Topic: CMIS Improvement

Bug Tickets/Feature Requests:

• Easy access to online document storage services like Google Drive (tdf#86703)
• Have popular CMIS pre-configured in LO custom dialog (tdf#86699)

Issue/Problem

• CMIS is only accessible through LibreOffice’s custom file dialogs, which isn’t turned on by default
• Setting up a new CMIS entry is not always easy/possible (AskLibO)
• Feature is not visible to the average user
• No straightforward integration into LO dialog (+/Server…, subtypes at CMIS)
• No feedback during connection
• No refresh/sync on changes, at least for Google Drive (LO overrides GD)

Screenshots of current UI

Features/Functional Requirements

• Access from start center (to promote this) and toolbar/menu (for fast and easy use)
• Own dialog since integration into standard dialog is possible but very limited
  • Libreoffice file dialog is removed completely (local files are opened via default dialog) and new dialog for remote files is introduced
• Types: WebDAV, ftp, ssh, Windows Share, CMIS (with 10 subtypes incl.

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This article was posted first on 2015-Feb-19 at user-prompt.com (site closed now)

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