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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 31 14:18:40 +0000 2008 ------- Predictions are hard to achieve, especially it they are about the future. ;-) Since several months we are working on the multiple layout refactoring. The work in Writer was done, but unfortunately now we are stuck in the Drawing Layer. We have even refactored this part except for two kinds of objects: grouped objects and form controls. While we are confident to fix the problems for the grouped objects in the next few weeks, we ran into serious problems with the form controls. We are depending on the work of others here that do their very best but can't give an estimation when they will finish the work. Nevertheless, I hope that we will fix that in the 3.0 release. On top of that we have to implement the new views. My personal *very* rough estimation is that each of the views will take more than six weeks but less than six months development time. Additionally we will have QA and specification work to be done. And e.g. 2-3 months of development time can be much more in real time, depending on what the available developers might have to do besides that (bug fixing, urgent things etc.). So I can't give an end date without knowing what else we have to implement in parallel. We are currently reviewing our priorities, see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Quarterly_Review So I think we should wait at least(!) for the first review cycle to give a better and more detailed answer. I think a lot of people that write comments here are making a fundamental mistake. The mere fact that we never implemented that feature does not mean that we don't think it is important. I can say that at least for the time where I have to honor to be the Project Lead (starting in November 2006). In this time we have implemented the centered view and the multiple page view and we started with the multiple layout refactoring. This is a quite huge investment in that area if you consider that we also had to do many other things (ODF1.2, Word XML import filter, many bug fixing etc. etc.). In fact we (the Writer development team) all agree that the "Outliner" feature is important for a small but not too small number of OOo Writer users. And for these people it probably is not even important but perhaps crucial. The problem is that we have so many features that are at least equally important for various reasons and that a lot of different factors must be taken into account when we select the work for the next release(s). I tried to explain that a bit in our blog: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/why_all_issues_are_equal Perhaps that helps to understand better that not implementing an Outline View not necessarily must be a clear sign of ignorance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
