Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Frank Schönheit - Sun
Microsystems Germany:
> Hi,

> The question we in Base's core team came up with: What's next?

> So, why I am writing this is as follows: You, as a user of
> OpenOffice.org, be it casual or expert, for private fun or business
> needs - what do you miss in this list? What would you like to see? What
> would make your life with Base a little or much easier?

To do for users
---------------
(based on my impression of what users actually ask for)

- add missing query types (append, update, create table)

- make reporting working and easily usable for low and mid complexity
tasks (not having tested it for a few months)

- at least investigate the effort of having foreign tables linked
into .odb besides it's main data source for access to external data
without importing and synchronization problems


(based on my own needs and wishes)

- make import from a calc table (copy and paste) respect the column
format for setting the column type (i.e. using "datetime" if data in
calc is formatted as "date")

- make the form and control properties window more visible (maybe
dockable like the "navigator")

- make the styles used by the form creation wizard available for later
reuse when creating additional controls (maybe it is, I didn't find it -
but when switching style in the wizard background colors and the like
are different from the default creational params of new controls)

- make attaching macros to controls easier and shorter, currently the
dialog is three or four layers deep and I've got to buy a new mouse
every now and then ;)

To do for developers
--------------------
- knit together the last loose ends for making application development
easily possible (although I think that's mostly done)


To do for the base dev team at Sun
----------------------------------
- throw a big party with free beer for the dev team and their relatives
and friends at least after each release, better would be once a month

Cheers,
Marc



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