Task #3207
closed
templates.libreoffice.org should redirect to a filtered view of only templates at extensions.libreoffice.org
Added by Adolfo Jayme Barrientos almost 4 years ago.
Updated about 3 years ago.
Category:
Extensions and Templates
Target version:
Team - Q3/2020
Description
In the help we mention this URL to help users get document templates; see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=8c7ae43f5361145d88cbd2830e3e2eb802117b5e and issue 2137.
This has regressed since the deployment of the new site. It is not obvious for users how to get templates since, sadly, once again the site is very haphazardly designed. Nobody consulted the design team for mockups apparently.
The URL <templates.libreoffice.org> should work and get you a list of templates, not irrelevant, randomly ordered extensions.
- Assignee set to Christian Lohmaier
- Related to Task #3205: Redirections are needed for new Extensions site, to allow links in existing versions of LO to open correct pages added
- Target version set to Q2/2020
I tend to agree - as a start, we could redirect templates.libreoffice.org to the below URL
Much better though would be a SEO-friendly URL with templates.libreoffice.org and the template name
Cloph, is this doable in Q2 still?
- Assignee changed from Christian Lohmaier to Heiko Tietze
- Target version changed from Q2/2020 to Q3/2020
Disagree, I don't want distinction between templates and extensions anymore, only will reintroduce this artificial split if I'm "forced" to. Assigning to Heiko first to come to final decision, but I'm strongly against reintroducing the split. There are much better ways to handle this, e.g with the already planned "weighing" of tags and similar.
I don't want distinction between templates and extensions anymore
But they ARE different things. Manuals are also NEITHER templates NOR extensions, yet they are hosted in the same site. This is confusing to users.
It’s okay if you want to host all of templates, extensions and manuals in the same infrastructure, just don’t pretend they are the same thing because they aren’t.
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee deleted (
Heiko Tietze)
We discussed this request in the team meeting and it's a duplicate of rdm#3229.
Btw, any link from LibreOffice should use the hub.libreoffice.org/* scheme now.
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