The new template selection screen of LibreOffice's start centre is very nice, however I believe it could use bigger thumbnails for the templates. The icon boundaries for each template are rather large, and there is plenty more room the icons can occupy, so I feel it's a shame to waste all that space.
Let's throw this to the design team.
(In reply to Beluga from comment #1) > Let's throw this to the design team. Status -> NEW
Created attachment 113301 [details] thumbnails in start center and template manager The template thumbnails are being pulled from the template manager dialog, so yes the icons there are to small for the start center.
*** Bug 92496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes, it looks like the thumbnail of each template needs a 2x - 2.5x scaling to better fit into preview object. The thumbnails are sized OK while shown within their category, but then navigating into the category, e.g. Bussiness Correspondence, Presentation Backgrounds, etc., the rendered thumbnails need to scaled larger on each selectable Template object.
The size is defined in include/sfx2/templateabstractview.hxx see the TEMPLATE_ITEM_MAX_WIDTH and TEMPLATE_ITEM_MAX_HEIGHT Ideally we should use dynamic size as we do with the recent documents (see sfx2/source/control/recentdocsview.cxx - RecentDocsView constructor), so that in case the screen is small, we get smaller thumbnails, and when the screen is larger, we get larger thumbnails.
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Yes, please make thumbnails larger. This is needed especially because the preview of the old template manager no longer exists.
LO 5.1.0.3 on Windows 10 For me this should be solved too, because I'm often using templates. I added too screenshots: one of the recent-files-preview in startcenter (which is ok) and one of the templates-preview in startcenter (which is too small). Espacially on high-resolution displays its a real pain.
Created attachment 122740 [details] recent files preview in startcenter
Created attachment 122741 [details] templates preview in startcenter
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Akshay Deep committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2e6ed7e0a0f7395d548cbbff71cb72ba32d10309 tdf#89095 Start Center: bigger thumbnails for templates It will be available in 5.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Akshay Deep committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8e65e1f91f23ff8ea34617c7fdacd933de0fad18&h=libreoffice-5-1 tdf#89095 Start Center: bigger thumbnails for templates It will be available in 5.1.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
verified w Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 0a8abaadf322dca5628c6e62eb18b19394995c40 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.4; UI Render: default; TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2016-04-12_05:42:52 Locale: de-DE (de.UTF-8) Another StartCenter nuisance down - thanks Akshay!