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.
Rough Target for release == End Year 2012
Component |
Feature/Enhancement |
Abstract |
Volunteer(s) |
Status |
Task-ID |
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Common |
Accessibility support |
integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability |
Yin Bing |
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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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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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enhanced extensions manager |
The extensions manager should support multiple repositories. Either via UI or via configuration only. |
jsc |
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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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Unknown macro: {highlight} 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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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
Writer |
Usability improvement in Ctrl+A and mouse operations in tables and sections |
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Cheng Jian Hong |
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Writer |
Interoperabilty improvement with MS Word on Table of Contents |
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Cheng Jian Hong |
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Writer |
Interoperability improvement with MS Word 2007/2010 on Shape support |
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Zhang Ying |
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Calc |
XLS loading performance with multiple pivot tables |
Improvements in both loading pivot table cache and in loading pivot table for the .xls files. |
Wang Lei |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Writer |
Implement Draw features |
Implement image rotation and some other existing draw features in Writer. |
ericb2 (other volunteers welcome) |
Unknown macro: {highlight} started |
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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 |
Unknown macro: {highlight} started |
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install |
modernize install |
create installer that loads resources as needed (downloaded or from local media) to solve current staging issues |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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install |
modernize install |
allow for the download and install of extensions during install (esp. for lang/dictionary) |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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built in cloud storage |
build in connector for cloud/Google Docs/CMIS |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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help |
option for online help |
provide user option to use current online help content instead of storing locally |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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help |
custom search for help |
integration of custom search on forums into help dialog |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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implement AOO server |
formalize the use of headless AOO as document converter - potentially as Apache mod (mod_aoo ?) |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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real time collaboration |
passing of ODF change sets over common transport (such as XMPP) |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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svn integration |
storage of ODF in svn with ODF change sets instead of text diffs |
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Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed |
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