The following table is intended to collect and document new features, enhancements or other working areas related to the AOO 4.1 release.
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 |
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Common |
Accessibility support |
integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability |
Yin Bing (Steve) |
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A [wiki|../../../../../../../../../display/OOOUSERS/AOO+IAccessible2] for this feature. |
Common |
Patch Mechanism in Windows |
Enable the patch mechanism in Window, so that AOO can provide small and accumulated patches to customers. |
Andre Fischer |
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Common |
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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Need Dev volunteer. |
Calc |
Provide a internal framework for HPC |
The Matrix Template Library is a high-performance generic component library inspired on STL for matrix operations. |
pfg |
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All |
OpenSocial integration |
OpenSocial is an open standard for interacting with social networking software. |
robweir, Kevin Grignon (UX design) |
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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 |
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. |
Lei Wang |
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Proposed
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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. |
Steve Yin |
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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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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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install |
modernize install |
create installer that loads resources as needed (downloaded or from local media) to solve current staging issues |
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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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built in cloud storage |
build in connector for cloud/Google Docs/CMIS |
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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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help |
custom search for help |
integration of custom search on forums into help dialog |
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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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real time collaboration |
passing of ODF change sets over common transport (such as XMPP) |
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svn integration |
storage of ODF in svn with ODF change sets instead of text diffs |
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