I want to use KPresenter. Really, I do. And of course, this being a presentations software, I want to do with it a presentation. By its very own implicit definition, a presentation has to be attractive yet simple, suggestive yet discrete. But mostly, it has to be aesthetically pleasing. Beautiful. Well, KPresenter's default templates are darn ugly. All of them. The only ones remotely usable are the KDE3 one and, somehow, the KDE2 and KDE1 ones. And... ugly surprise, the KDE2 and KDE1 were made by ... me! Back in 1999 (this is in antiquity, for who doesn't care to do the math). If 2/3 of the acceptable templates of KPresenter are made by an aesthetics-challenged, artistically-incompetent semi-doct developer aeons ago, we're really in bad shape.
Isn't there any young artist in quest for glory that wants to have his name and creations shot in the stratospheres together with a successful KOffice??
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I also noticed that disapointing situation.
Interesting templates should not be neglected and can help to have a popular office suite.
I was also scared to install OpenOffice.org back when I was using Windows (and not knowing about Linux nor free software yet) to see exactly three templates, mostly oldish looking.
I've got some nice ideas (IMHO) for conceptual beautiful designs.
Here is a first one I sketched in Gimp:
http://basket.kde.org/presentation_curved_aurora.png
You should view "Curved Aurora" fullscreen, so to profit of the "out of the non-rectangular screen" concept.
It is only an image for now.
As I'm used to seldomly finish the work I begin, it's not sure I will finish. I SHOULD. On day I will...
And I will propose it to KPresenter developers when it's done.
I also have nice other concepts / design ideas in mind (hum... I tested some of them and they are ugglier on screen than in mind
).
What do you think about that?
new templates
Heh - update latest KOffice SVN and marvel at the two templates I added about a week ago...
I too cry at the current templates, and if I get any more ideas, I may make some more soon.
Danny
no need - no templates
My thoughts on why there are no templates.
Short story:
The math is simple: No art-head is able to make linux trully behave on a laptop - aka the device we use for presentations.
Long story:
My personal list of past hustles:
- Need to make wireless work on laptop.
- Need to make linux power aware. (like to spin down that demn drive and hybernate without freezing on restart)
- Need to make X listen to the hotkey and switch between LCD and SVGA out.
If Kubuntu 5.10 still doesn't configure all of this, what other art-head-totting-a-portable friendly distro is there? May be in 1-2 years, when laptops with Linux on them become easier to own, you'll have ppl haggling for the right to do a template.
On January 5th, 1976, on this very spot nothing important happened.
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templates
Why no templates: who put out the word(and where) that we need any new ones? It is the first I hear about it. I want to look into it, but I can't promise anything
Also: if you have one, where should you send it to?
btw suslikreal, are you not making any presentations until your wireless works, your harddrive spins down, and X listens to your hotkey??
btw suslikreal, are you not
btw suslikreal, are you not making any presentations until your wireless works, your harddrive spins down, and X listens to your hotkey??
I am a bit surprised by your question, but, the answer is an absolute "YES, the presentation is not possible without one of these." I'll let you guess which one.
However, you grossly missed the whole point.
On January 5th, 1976, on this very spot nothing important happened.
suslikcentral.blogspot.com
Ok, I understood you need
Ok, I understood you need this to give a presentation, but why complain about this here? The author helps make KPresenter, calls for making new templates and is in fact doing his part of the job to make you able to give presentations with linux. These problems you mention are not to be solved by the author...and are not a reason to NOT help make some nice templates...that's what I mean with my 'btw' comment.
try suse... very very laptop
try suse... very very laptop aware.
but yes, it is still an issue.