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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.

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in progress

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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.

Component

Feature/Enhancement

Abstract

Volunteer(s)

Status

Task-ID

Common

Accessibility support

integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Writer

Usability improvement in Ctrl+A and mouse operations in tables and sections

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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. The cwshsqldb19 which implement HSQLDB 2.x.x was finished, but not integrated into OOo 3.4Beta due to incompatibilities in database engines. The new version converts database to new format which is not usable in older version of Base.

 

 

 

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