AOO 4.0 Release Planning

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

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ok/done,

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in progress

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open/missing

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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.

Rough Target for release == April 2013

Component	Feature/Enhancement	Abstract	Volunteer(s)	Status	Task-ID
Interop	MS Office interoperability enhancements	Many MS Office interoperability enhancement and defect fixes across Writer, Calc and Impress. Here is the wiki of samples . For complete list, please refer to the query here.		Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress
Common	Accessibility support	integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability	Yin Bing	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress	A [wiki] for this feature.
	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	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress	Completed tasks: Saving odt 120030 Loading xls 121190 120586 120575 Saving xls 120168
	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 Wang Lei Kevin Grignon (UX design)	Unknown macro: {highlight} Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress	Sub-wiki created for this feature. UX Design Explorations created on AOO UX wiki for this feature. Implementation wiki created for this feature.
	enhanced extensions manager	The extensions manager should support multiple repositories. Either via UI or via configuration only.	jsc	Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed
	OpenSocial support	Enable 'sharing' to OpenSocial container's Activity Streams for document, chart, or spreadsheet review & comment	Kevin Grignon (UX design)	Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed
	Encryption GUI	Allow users to choose SHA256/AES or SHA1/Blowfish when saving ODF1.2 files. Design required, discussion recommended. See Issue 119090.		Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed	TJ Frazier requested. UI design discussion on going. No dev volunteer now.
	Patch Mechanism in Windows	Enable the patch mechanism in Window, so that AOO can provide small and accumulated patches to customers.	Andre Fischer	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress
	More Gallery	Build in more cliparts from Symphony into the gallery	Armin Le Grand	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress
	Add Symphony gradients	when looking at Symphony I saw that there are some much nicer default gradients provided for user's convenience. Our current ones are medium usable (maybe created by developers), but still present in Symphony, too. To easily see what I'm talking about I have created two files: - A Impress doc - The same as png I propose to do the same as in Symphony: Add the lower symphony ones additionally. It's not much space (in the install set ;-)) and offers much nicer to-go gradients. Detailed proposal in dev mail here.	Armin Le Grand	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress
	Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially	Detailed proposal in dev mail here.	Armin Le Gran	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress
	MacOS support with Java dropped		Herbert Duerr	Unknown macro: {highlight} Proposed
Common	"OpenOffice.org" --> "Apache OpenOffice"	Adapt naming from "OpenOffice.org" (and its variants) to "Apache OpenOffice"	Oliver-Rainer Wittmann	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress	See Issue 121388.
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.	Fan Zheng, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Cheng Jian Hong	Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress	Feature design wiki . Tasks: 120879 120938 120874 121351
Writer	Implement Draw features	Implement image rotation and some other existing draw features in Writer.	ericb2 (other volunteers welcome)	Unknown macro: {highlight} started
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 branch alg/AW080
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