Hi Frank. In looking at the Feature Pool list I suggest a small simplification/consolidation of a couple of items 1. from Forms - "a "Button Wizard", which allows easy creation of button controls associated with certain common actions" 2. from Database - "dedicated UI (wizard) for creating a switchboard"
to my mind a switchboard should just be a subset of the button wizards project.. I believe keeping these two items separate would open up the possibility of two separate and differently flavoured developments taking place. This area is a historical mess in MS Access because a switchboard scheme was built around a dedicated database table a couple of releases before the button wizard functionalities came in with VBA. Once the latter became available the DoCmd related wizard stuff rendered the earlier switchboard functionality obsolete. Let's not waste efforts repeating that separation, eh? cheers -- Mike Moller Lallybroch Alpacas New Zealand www.lallybroch.co.nz PS I heartily endorse the notion of free beer for your development team :-) On 1/10/09, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So, OOo 3.1 is nearly done. Don't believe it? :) Look at > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease31: The feature > freeze (the last chance to commit new features) long passed, and the > code freeze (the last chance to commit regular bug fixes) is very near. > > The question we in Base's core team came up with: What's next? Spend a > few years on bug fixing, or better implement some new features? Which > ones? Out pet peeves, or better the ones requested by our users? > (Really?) And out of the latter set, again: which ones? There are more > requests than we could possibly fulfill in a foreseeable future ... > > So, to make this short: We did some initial brain storming - just > collected ideas and wishes, what we think should or could be addressed > in the next version(s). > > Find the result here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Base/Features/Pool > > If you read it, you'll find that this is pretty mixed stuff at the > moment, ranging from very small changes to large (sometimes even > esoteric) features. Well, that's okay for now, that's just a pool we > threw in what came to our mind. > > Also, it's really on the feature level, you won't find a Big Picture > (TM) like "We want to make life easier for the following user group". > I'd claim that's okay for now, too ... > > > 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? > > If you have an answer to this question, share it by replying to this mail. > > Please be as concrete an concise as possible - I plan to collect and > condense your ideas, and put them into the pool, too. If everybody of > you would write 5 pages for every single idea, I'll soon be lost, so > bear with me, please! > > Also, I kindly ask you to not add directly to the Wiki page, this would > soon get out of control. > > Finally, don't ask me what's next. For the moment, we just want to hear > the Customer's Voice - your's! > > So, surprise us (or don't) by writing down and sharing your wishes and > ideas. > > Thanks & Ciao > Frank > > -- > - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [email protected] - > - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - > - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
