AOO 4.0 Feature Planning

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

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)

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.

Cheng Jian Hong

Writer

Interoperabilty improvement with MS Word on Table of Contents

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

1. 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.
2. 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

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 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)

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

install

modernize install

create installer that loads resources as needed (downloaded or from local media) to solve current staging issues

install

modernize install

allow for the download and install of extensions during install (esp. for lang/dictionary)

built in cloud storage

build in connector for cloud/Google Docs/CMIS

help

option for online help

provide user option to use current online help content instead of storing locally

help

custom search for help

integration of custom search on forums into help dialog

implement AOO server

formalize the use of headless AOO as document converter - potentially as Apache mod (mod_aoo ?)

real time collaboration

passing of ODF change sets over common transport (such as XMPP)

svn integration

storage of ODF in svn with ODF change sets instead of text diffs

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