Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 80.235.55.204]
on April 05, 2008 07:22 AM
While many people do wish to have a better OOoBase, then from what I've gleaned from development discussions in OOo's IssueZilla, is that much effort appears to be concentrating on framework and document format stuff, where some of the new issues depend on the document format specification, which must be updated before any changes are to be included in the code.
Some of the examples:
* ODF formula spec;
* Document comments /some basic/useful functionality can be seen in OOo 3.0 beta with existing comments functionality in the document format;
* Use of the overbar, which is important for electric/scientific/language uses. I don't know yet if the overbar (or overline) has been implemented into the ODF 1.2 spec yet or not.
Other outstanding issues are related to how dictionaries are installed both by administrators and normal users of a system and which would be the various default dictionaries installed by language editions of OOo and how the dictionaries are managed /issues pertaining to installation and removal and custom dictionaries.
The changes were considered to be so drastic that the target milestone was actually set to 3.0 /by then it was apprarently unfortunately too late for 2.4 anyway, which has reportedly come to bear the burden of being the last branch for Windows 98/Me :/.
I did notice some slight improvements in performance for 2.4 when loading a file with a WMF image in it. The improvement was actually that opening that particular file took about as much time, which means that the loading/opening time remained the same, despite changes in package bytesize.
To sum it up, the OOo people are working hard at modularizing the whole package, one of the reasons being that of several parties which want to use their own branding and include some of their own features, while keeping the base intact and separate; some people only want to generate documents, some others want to convert them and others yet want to use only specialized functions that still use the same document format.
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OOBase and why main components are more important
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 80.235.55.204] on April 05, 2008 07:22 AMSome of the examples:
* ODF formula spec;
* Document comments /some basic/useful functionality can be seen in OOo 3.0 beta with existing comments functionality in the document format;
* Use of the overbar, which is important for electric/scientific/language uses. I don't know yet if the overbar (or overline) has been implemented into the ODF 1.2 spec yet or not.
Other outstanding issues are related to how dictionaries are installed both by administrators and normal users of a system and which would be the various default dictionaries installed by language editions of OOo and how the dictionaries are managed /issues pertaining to installation and removal and custom dictionaries.
The changes were considered to be so drastic that the target milestone was actually set to 3.0 /by then it was apprarently unfortunately too late for 2.4 anyway, which has reportedly come to bear the burden of being the last branch for Windows 98/Me :/.
I did notice some slight improvements in performance for 2.4 when loading a file with a WMF image in it. The improvement was actually that opening that particular file took about as much time, which means that the loading/opening time remained the same, despite changes in package bytesize.
To sum it up, the OOo people are working hard at modularizing the whole package, one of the reasons being that of several parties which want to use their own branding and include some of their own features, while keeping the base intact and separate; some people only want to generate documents, some others want to convert them and others yet want to use only specialized functions that still use the same document format.
Framework and modularization ideas here:
http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/proposal.html
For new features in 2.4, see
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features#Features_for_the_2.4_Release_.28March_2008.29
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