Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi Akila,

I think those priorities sound about right in terms of order and
priority.  I'd also add that possible UI improvements would be useful;
right now the UI is a little clunky.

Are you applying for the Google Summer of Code to work on this?  If so,
I look forward to seeing your application.

Regards,

Nathan


On 04/05/2010 09:03 PM, Akila Wajirasena wrote:
> Hello Nathan,
> 
> I have worked on what you asked for the OO.o plug in in the wiki. I have
> sucessfully compiled it to be used in OO.o 3.1 and there is a little
> problem that if I add the menu item inside the insert menu using this
> xml phrase in addons.xcu (what you have used before)
>  
> <value>.uno:InsertMenu\.uno:InsertDoc</value>
>  
> the CC menu become inactive in impress and calc. So  I put the menu
> after Insert menu in the menu bar. This hapens because the
> .uno:InsertDoc (File) menu is not present in the calc and impress.
> 
> <prop oor:name="MergeFallback">
>                 <value>AddPath</value>
>          </prop>
> 
> will add the menu item but it become inactive when .uno:InsertDoc
> (File)is not there.
> 
> I have tried to add the support to drow and i have put the license
> successfully but the alignments should be done.
> 
> Then I added a link to FAQ in your site in the insert license dialogbox
> because I felt most of the people are not aware about the usage of CC
> (from my own experience :) and things like this
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-devel/2010-April/001492.html ).
> 
> So here is my list of successions for the OO.o plugin
> 
>    1. Supporting OO.o 3.1 (I have compiled it using 3.1 SDK but need to
>       remove some deprecated classes and do any other improvements )
>    2. Adding support for CC0.
>    3. Support for draw (I have put the license but the alignments should
>       be made to put it in the bottom right corner (or any other place
>       as you request) .
>    4. Adding references to important pages like FAQ about (I have
>       roughly done it in the current add in) and a method to show what
>       is each license is ex "what is Share Alike".
>    5. If possible, speed up the first time license insertion process ().
>       (In here i think I'll need your help very much).
>    6. Internationalization.
>    7. Adding  CC logos in to plug-in.
> 
> I have listed them in the way I felt that they are useful. I would like
> to know your idea about them. So i can put them in a proper order of
> importance. (and probably the most possible ones first).
> -- 
> __________________________________
> Regards
> Akila Wajirasena
> http://akila87.wordpress.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Nathan R. Yergler
Chief Technology Officer
Creative Commons

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