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The following table is intended to collect and document new features,
enhancements or other working areas related to the next major release AOO 4.0.
The status can be tracked highlevel for example by using the colors
{highlight:green}ok/done,{highlight}{highlight:yellow}in progress{highlight}and
{highlight:red}open/missing{highlight}.
More detailed description or potential specifications (as base for
documentation, QA, development) should be provided on demand on linked feature
sub-pages. And a corresponding Bugzilla ID should be provided for detailed
tracking.
h3. Proposed Release Schedule
03/01 function verification test will start, define test case, prepare tests
etc.
04/04 integrate sidebar branch in trunk, other new features should be finished
by this date as well.
04/05 - 05/15 regression testing will be start on trunk
04/05 - 05/15 bugfix and stabilization, no feature development
04/08 - 05/15 translation \-> \~5 weeks for updating the new strings
05/21 RC1
06/04 RC2
06/18 RC3 (optional), can be GA already
*06/25 GA*
h3. Proposed Release Contents
|| Component || Feature/Enhancement || Abstract || Volunteer(s) || Status ||
Task-ID ||
| Interop \\ | MS Office interoperability enhancements \\ | Many MS Office
interoperability enhancement and defect fixes across Writer, Calc and Impress.
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Here is the [wiki of
samples|http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Fidelity_Improvement_Since_AOO341]
. \\
For complete list, please refer to the query
[here|https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=TargetTo40AllFixed&sharer_id=249089].
\\ | | {highlight:green}done \\
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{highlight}\\ | |
| | Performance improvements for loading and saving of documents | General
performance improvements, especially on document loading and saving. The
content of .odt and .odp files can be displayed before the whole document is
loaded. Better usability by improved application response. | Ma Yong Lin |
{highlight:green}done \\ \\ \\
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{highlight} | Completed tasks: \\
Saving odt \\
120030 \\ \\
Loading xls \\
121190 \\
120586 \\
120575 \\ \\
Saving xls \\
120168 \\ |
| | Property Sidebar | A user interface improvement to allow easy and fast
access to manage object properties. A concept to replace or as an alternative
to toolbars. Task panes are used to allow more vertical space for the document
area and to make use of current common wide screen displays. | Andre Fischer \\
Wang Lei \\
Kevin Grignon (UX design) | {highlight}{highlight:yellow}In
progress{highlight}\\ \\
Delivered to Trunk. Testing and bug fix on going. \\ |
[Sub-wiki|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+sidebar]
created for this feature. \\ [UX Design
Explorations|http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_4.0_Dockable_Task_Pane_%28Task_Bar%29_Design_Exploration]
created on AOO UX wiki for this feature. [Implementation wiki
|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+sidebar] created
for this feature. \\ |
| | More Gallery \\ | Build in more cliparts from Symphony into the gallery \\
| Armin Le Grand \\ | {highlight:green}done \\ \\ \\
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| | Add Symphony gradients | when looking at Symphony I saw that there are some
much nicer default \\
gradients provided for user's convenience. Our current ones are medium \\
usable (maybe created by developers), but still present in Symphony, \\
too. To easily see what I'm talking about I have created two files: \\
\- [A Impress doc|http://people.apache.org/~alg/Gradients/gradients.odp]\\
\- [The same as png|http://people.apache.org/~alg/Gradients/gradients.png]\\
I propose to do the same as in Symphony: Add the lower symphony ones \\
additionally. It's not much space (in the install set \;-)) and offers \\
much nicer to-go gradients. \\
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Detailed proposal in dev mail
[here|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3C50D07884.3090307%40me.com%3E].
\\ | Armin Le Grand \\ | {highlight:green}done \\
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{highlight}\\ \\ | |
| | Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially | Detailed proposal in dev mail
[here|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3C50D2EC5B.2040507%40me.com%3E].
\\ | Armin Le Gran \\ | {highlight:green}done \\
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{highlight} | |
| | Platform Refresh | The codebase is quite old, uses APIs that have been
deprecated/unsupported for many years and has build requirements that are
obsolete and hard to becoming increasingly harder to fulfill. \\ \\
For the major release we need to focus on the things that are critical from a
binary compatibility standpoint: \\
Support the official JRE on MacOSX Apple's JRE6 is deprecated and the official
JRE7 is only available as 64bit \\ | Herbert Duerr \\ | {highlight:yellow}In
progress \\
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{highlight} Development work ongoing. | |
| Common | "OpenOffice.org" \--> "Apache OpenOffice" | Adapt naming from
"OpenOffice.org" (and its variants) to "Apache OpenOffice" | Oliver-Rainer
Wittmann | {highlight:green}done{highlight} | See [Issue
121388|https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121388#]. |
| Writer | Interoperabilty improvement with MS Word on Table of Contents | #
The TOC data of a MS Word document is not parsed completely.And actual TOC data
is from silently updating once a MS Word Document loaded.Thus,the fidelity can
not be ensured especially when the document contents that impact TOC have been
changed after creating TOC in MS Word.So,we propose to implement the TOC
loading process to replace the update action.
# The tab between chapter number and TOC entry lost when loading a MS Word
document,which leads to different gap between chapter number and TOC entry.That
looks different from MS Word.
# Jump info will be lost when loading MS Word TOC created by un-checking "Use
hyperlinks instead of page numbers". For this kind of TOC,end users can only
press ctrl+mouse to click the page number of the TOC entry for jumping in MS
Word.
# The customized character attributes will be lost when loading MS Word TOC
created by un-checking "Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers". To this kind
of TOC,the customized character attributes of the target paragraphs can be
collected into TOC in MS Word. | Fan Zheng, \\
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, \\
Cheng Jian Hong | {highlight:green}done{highlight} | Feature design
[wiki|http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/TOC#Table_of_Contents_Improvements]
. \\
Tasks: \\
120879 \\
120938 \\
120874 \\
121351 \\ |
| Common \\ | 3layer drop \\ |
[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201304.mbox/%3C515EF683.5080103%40gmail.com%3E]
| jsc \\ | {highlight:yellow}In progress \\
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| | new logo \\ |
[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations]
| | {highlight:yellow}In progress \\
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