https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169437
Bug ID: 169437
Summary: Support using images as backgrounds without adding
them to the "gallery"
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Blocks: 107936, 108437
LO allows setting the background of a drawing object (or a page) to an image.
However - the workflow is, that LO maintains a gallery of background images -
by default, a bunch of geometric or natural-surface patterns - and we can:
* Add an image to the gallery
* Set the background image to one of the images in the gallery
Now, the gallery of patterns is nice-to-have, I guess, but it's a bit of a
baroque ornament over the basic feature: Set the background to an image.
I believe it should be possible to perform that action, "straight", and not go
through an addition to the gallery. The main reasons are:
1. 'Conceptual friction': Very often, the background image the user wants to
add is not the kind of image that would fit on a gallery: It's not some
pattern, it is bespoke, would fit just one document/one page, and will not be
re-used frequently, or ever. Examples: A scanned form; or a photo of a certain
event or person. We should not force the user to add such an image into a
gallery, and then have to remove it from that gallery again.
2. Privacy, or at least the user's concern for it: The user may want to use an
image which they do not want others to see later. Even if the gallery is only
visible to the same user account on the user's computer - it might be an
account used by family members or guests. Leaving an image in the gallery is a
strong marker of "hey, here is what I put in my document".
A possible third reason is an objection raised on bug 169329 regarding whether
or not it is appropriate/legitimate to use gallery images as backgrounds by
link rather than by embedding. IMNSHO, it's fine either way, but if it is
decided that gallery images always get embedded, then this would also be the
route for using non-embedded images as backgrounds.
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107936
[Bug 107936] [META] Page-level bugs and enhancements
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108437
[Bug 108437] [META] Image bugs and enhancements
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