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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.
*Rough Target for release == End Year 2012*
|| Component || Feature/Enhancement || Abstract || Volunteer(s) || Status ||
Task-ID ||
| Common | Accessibility support | integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve
the usability | Yin Bing | | |
| | 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 | | |
| | 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. | Wang Lei | |
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created for this feature.\\ |
| | enhanced extensions manager | The extensions manager should support
multiple repositories. Either via UI or via configuration only. | jsc | | \\ |
| | OpenSocial support | Enable 'sharing' to OpenSocial container's Activity
Streams for document, chart, or spreadsheet review & comment | Kevin Grignon
(UX design) | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} |
| | Encryption GUI | Allow users to choose SHA256/AES or SHA1/Blowfish when
saving ODF1.2 files. Design required, discussion recommended. See [Issue
119090|https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119090#c31]. | | |
{highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} |
| Writer | Usability improvement in Ctrl+A and mouse operations in tables and
sections | # The capability and usability of Ctrl+A is enhanced to make users
able to select and operate tables, nested tables, or tables within sections at
the top of a document through select all operation.
# The capability and usability of mouse operation is also enhanced to make
users able to select and operate the tables, nested tables, or tables within
sections at the top of a document through mouse to select them from the end to
the beginning. | Cheng Jian Hong | | |
| 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. | Cheng Jian Hong | | |
| Writer | Interoperability improvement with MS Word 2007/2010 on Shape support
| # The shape created in MS Word 2007/2010 can't be parsed and will lost after
importing. So, we propose to improve the implementation for shape loading.
# The shape in MS Word 2007 described as VML format, and in MS Word 2007/2010,
it's both in VML and DrawingML together. And to initial the compatible for this
part, we propose to support VML first. So we could better interoperable with MS
Word 2007 and MS word 2010 for common cases. | Zhang Ying | | |
| Calc | XLS loading performance with multiple pivot tables | Improvements in
both loading pivot table cache and in loading pivot table for the .xls files. \\
The loading performance for .xls files with multiple pivot tables is improved a
lot, especially with multiple pivot table caches. | Wang Lei | | |
| Impress | Speaker notes support in normal view | A user interface improvement
from Symphony to provide speaker notes in normal view. Users can view and edit
speaker notes in normal view directly. | Chen Jin Hua | | |
| Base | Update database engine to HSQLDB 2.2.x | The present versions uses
HSQLDB 1.8.0.10 version, HSQLDB 2.x.x has more features, and it is a version in
development. CWS [hsqldb19|http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/hsqldb19] was
developed and tested extensively during 2009-11 (until April) by Ocke Janssen.
The CWS is named 19 because it was started with a pre-release version of
HSQLDB. It was actually developed and tested with release versions of HSQLDB
2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.x. The change from 3.3 to CWS was that the
org.hsqldb.lib.Storage was retired and replaced by
org.hsqldb.persist.RandomAccessInterface, which has similar methods | | | |
| SDK \\ | Include ODF Toolkit \\ | Include the Apache ODF Toolkit with the
OpenOffice SDK. Also include code samples showing how the ODF Toolkit can
be used with OpenOffice. \\ | robweir \\ | | |
| Writer \\ | Implement Draw features \\ | Implement image rotation and some
other existing draw features in Writer. \\ | ericb2 (other volunteers welcome)
\\ | {highlight:yellow}started{highlight} | |
| Draw (and others) | Fundamental changes needed for further bug fixing and
features | Rework internal representation of drawing objects to use double
precision and transformation matrix | Armin Le Grand |
{highlight:yellow}started \\
branch alg/AW080{highlight} | |
| install | modernize install | create installer that loads resources as needed
(downloaded or from local media) to solve current staging issues | |
{highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| install | modernize install | allow for the download and install of
extensions during install (esp. for lang/dictionary) | |
{highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | built in cloud storage | build in connector for cloud/Google Docs/CMIS | |
{highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| help | option for online help | provide user option to use current online
help content instead of storing locally | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight}
| |
| help | custom search for help | integration of custom search on forums into
help dialog | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | implement AOO server | formalize the use of headless AOO as document
converter - potentially as Apache mod (mod_aoo ?) | |
{highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | real time collaboration | passing of ODF change sets over common transport
(such as XMPP) | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | svn integration | storage of ODF in svn with ODF change sets instead of
text diffs | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| ... | ... | | | | |
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