https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #298 from Mark McKay <[email protected]> --- It would be nice if everyone here were to relax. Developing open source software isn't easy. Most of OpenOffice is a reqorking of Star Office - Sun Microsystem's attempt to compete with MS Office back in the day. Something an integrated as an Outline View strikes me as something that would be fairly tricky to implement. Not only is it complex, but if it's done wrong it could mess up the primary function of the word processor. For that reason, it's pretty unlikely that any outside contractor and/or could fix this since even if they came up with a solution I would expect the chances of it being integrated into the main code base would be nil. (I've on occasion submitted small patches to other open source projects. Usually they go ignored). If anything is to get done, there needs to be someone on the core OpenOffice team that thinks it is a good idea - which begs the question of just how active the dev team is. Is there a core team actively working on new features? Or is the code in a bugfix-only state? If there is an active dev team, how can outsiders get involved? Also, if the OO team is not interested/able to work on this feature, it would be nice if they could just say so plainly. The Navigator is a great feature, but it falls short of a fully integrated outliner mode. (And LaTeX - seriously? Does anyone outside of a university engineering department use that?). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.
