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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Interop |
MS Office interoperability enhancements |
Many MS Office interoperability enhancement and defect fixes across Writer, Calc and Impress. |
|
Unknown macro: {highlight}
done
|
|
|
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} done |
Completed tasks: |
|
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 |
Unknown macro: {highlight}
Unknown macro: {highlight}
In progress
|
Sub-wiki created for this feature. |
|
More Gallery |
Build in more cliparts from Symphony into the gallery |
Armin Le Grand |
Unknown macro: {highlight}
done
|
|
|
Add Symphony gradients |
when looking at Symphony I saw that there are some much nicer default |
Armin Le Grand |
Unknown macro: {highlight}
done
|
|
|
Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially |
Detailed proposal in dev mail here. |
Armin Le Gran |
Unknown macro: {highlight} done |
|
|
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 |
Unknown macro: {highlight}
In progress Development work ongoing. |
|
Common |
"OpenOffice.org" --> "Apache OpenOffice" |
Adapt naming from "OpenOffice.org" (and its variants) to "Apache OpenOffice" |
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann |
Unknown macro: {highlight} done |
See Issue 121388. |
Writer |
Interoperabilty improvement with MS Word on Table of Contents |
|
Fan Zheng, |
Unknown macro: {highlight} done |
Feature design wiki . |
Common |
3layer drop |
jsc |
Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress |
|
|
|
new logo |
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations |
|
Unknown macro: {highlight} In progress |
|
... |
... |
|
|
|
|