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
ok/done,
in progress
and
open/missing
.
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.
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
Proposed Release Contents
Component |
Feature/Enhancement |
Abstract |
Volunteer(s) |
Status |
Task-ID |
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Interop |
MS Office interoperability enhancements |
Many MS Office interoperability enhancement and defect fixes across Writer, Calc and Impress. |
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In progress
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Common |
Accessibility support |
integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability |
Yin Bing |
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In progress
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A wiki for this feature. |
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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 |
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In progress
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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 |
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In progress
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Sub-wiki created for this feature. |
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enhanced extensions manager |
The extensions manager should support multiple repositories. Either via UI or via configuration only. |
jsc |
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Proposed
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OpenSocial support |
Enable 'sharing' to OpenSocial container's Activity Streams for document, chart, or spreadsheet review & comment |
Kevin Grignon (UX design) |
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Proposed
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Encryption GUI |
Allow users to choose SHA256/AES or SHA1/Blowfish when saving ODF1.2 files. Design required, discussion recommended. See Issue 119090. |
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Proposed
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TJ Frazier requested. UI design discussion on going. No dev volunteer now. |
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Patch Mechanism in Windows |
Enable the patch mechanism in Window, so that AOO can provide small and accumulated patches to customers. |
Andre Fischer |
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In progress
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More Gallery |
Build in more cliparts from Symphony into the gallery |
Armin Le Grand |
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In progress
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Add Symphony gradients |
when looking at Symphony I saw that there are some much nicer default |
Armin Le Grand |
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In progress
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Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially |
Detailed proposal in dev mail here. |
Armin Le Gran |
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In progress
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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. |
Herbert Duerr |
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In progress Development work ongoing. |
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Common |
"OpenOffice.org" --> "Apache OpenOffice" |
Adapt naming from "OpenOffice.org" (and its variants) to "Apache OpenOffice" |
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann |
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See Issue 121388. |
Writer |
Interoperabilty improvement with MS Word on Table of Contents |
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Fan Zheng, |
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Feature design wiki . |
Writer |
Implement Draw features |
Implement image rotation and some other existing draw features in Writer. |
ericb2 (other volunteers welcome) |
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started Suggest to move to 4.1. |
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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 |
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started Suggest to move to 4.1. |
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Common |
3layer drop |
jsc |
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new logo |
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations |
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