Talk:FAQ

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I added a question I don't know the anwer to, so I didn't add the answer. Since this is my first edit I apologize in advance if listing an unanswered question in the FAQ page is contrary to the estabilished custom of the community. Yours, Emelag 07:17, 3 May 2006 (PDT)

online-browsing of the library

The links in the article do not work. I can't find a way to access the library. Thomas Zahreddin 12:51, 4 June 2007 (GMT +2h)

why are there no thumbnails

why are there no thumbnails --Why are there no thumbnails 07:46, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Seconding this; it's possibly both a bug and a feature. On the search result pages there aren't any thumbnails, but there aren't any suggestions of any in the source, so I guess that's intentional. In the page view, though, .svg files aren't rendering in my browser - I just get the "thumbnail" alt text, and have to right-click and "view picture" to actually see it. I'm using Firefox on Windows 2000. --Trireme 16:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

On 06:50, 2 May 2009 Instinctive wrote "Why are there no thumbnail previews on the search page?"

We have no idea. Probably because thumbnail previews are evil. Thumbnails simply don't belong into what's essentially an image search engine. It's far more practical to just click on each search result, check out the clipart there, and then click the Back button in order to click on the next search result.

If this weren't the case, then this question would've been raised before.

Please change the text to something more helpful and truthful.

This is an incorrect and misleading answer to the question, "Why isn"t there thumbnails for the clipart search engine?" The true answer is, that function is not programmed into the site as yet. The OCAL site did not have enough website programmers, or programmer time, to enable this feature. There was too much work, spread over all the sister, related projects, for the team of volunteers (often only one or two people) to implement things like this as soon as everyone would have liked. This question has been raised before, many times, but the simple fact is OCAL did not have enough people working on the code, and those that were, are spread across many projects. That's the bad news.

The good news is that currently we have someone working on a New Version of the website, one issue in particular that is getting fixed, is the lack of thumbnails.

(2009-06-06) This feature should have been the central feature of the whole site. Trying to choose images without a thumbnail is extremely tedious. It is impossible to recommend the OCAL website as a source or take it seriously without this feature, IMO. Apologies if this is the wrong place to air this. Keep up the good work. Pbhj 13:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

At the moment OCAL is in development. Please be patient as certain issues are addressed. You can subscribe to the Mailing list - or read the mailing list archives for reports on thumbnails. Chovynz 21:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

How can I use these images in OpenOffice.org?

I am hesitant to be critical, but this section does not answer the question. I've downloaded the .zip version, and then the .exe version. I can find the images in the directory just fine. I can manually locate and preview the clip art in a separate application and then go back into Drawing and navigate to the same directory and select the desired image, but what a pain. But am lost as to how anyone can use these images in OO Drawing to insert them in a creative, free-flow manner. The drawing toolbar in OO Drawing shows me what (predefined clip art) I will get if selected. The manual process of navigating outside the OO app to preview a possible item, and then having to re-navigate within OO to select the desired object is a high maintenance task. Unless I am missing something (probably) it would be better for someone to create a single OO document with all of the clip art items, so that I could simply open a single document, browse it visually and then copy-and-paste clip art.

Does anyone else have this beef? How do you expect non-technical people to easily use this offering?