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framework: Allow to show UI during Gnome session shutdown.

Currently, when the user closes his Gnome session and has still
unsaved OpenOffice.org documents, OpenOffice.org is forced to close
without asking if the unsaved documents should be saved. The result is
that the user has to go thru the
restoring proces...
Task: i105172
Spec: -
Mail: Mikhail.Voytenko@Sun.COM

framework: editing custom properties of type "Duration"

To add/edit the custom properties of Date, DateTime and Duration (see
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=interface-announce&msgNo=1246
) the custom properties page of the dialog File/Properties has been
changed.
Date and ... [More] DateTime are edit...
Task: i97029
Spec: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/fileIO/Custom_Document_Properties.odt
Mail: oliver.specht@sun.com [Less]

chart: Chart Drawing Objects

Chart was enhanced and now supports drawing objects. The drawing
toolbar allows to insert simple shapes such as lines, rectangles and
text objects. Furthermore even complex shapes such as cubes, symbols,
block arrows, flowcharts and stars ... [More] can be inserte...
Task: i12587,i66277,159032,b6723394
Spec: http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartDrawingObjects.odt
Mail: thomas.benisch@sun.com [Less]

chart: Chart Drawing Objects

Chart was enhanced and now supports drawing objects. The drawing
toolbar allows to insert simple shapes such as lines, rectangles and
text objects. Furthermore even complex shapes such as cubes, symbols,
block arrows, flowcharts and stars ... [More] can be inserte...
Task: i12587
Spec: http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartDrawingObjects.odt
Mail: thomas.benisch@sun.com [Less]

qa: testtool: Enable tabswitching on named dialog

Old behaviour to switch tab pages on a dialog looks like:
kontext
active.setPage nameOfPage
kontext "nameOfPage"

This lead to problems in case another messagebox is also open - which
is also of type "active".
Now it is possible to name the dialog w...
Task: i104281
Spec: -
Mail: tbo@openoffice.org

framework: form controls (some of them) use the same text rendering as the containing document

With the integration of CWS controltextrendering, the way how controls
render their text has changed. Well, this applies to some controls, in
some documents, at least.

In general, the OOo applications format their text on the screen using
a so-called...
Task: i105717
Spec: -
Mail: frank.schoenheit@sun.com

gsl: Allow duplicate field names in PDF export

It is now possible to allow the same name for multiple fields in PDF
export. The default is to still make the field names unique when
exporting to PDF....
Task: i103932
Spec: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/PDFExportDialog2.odt
Mail: philipp.lohmann@sun.com

sc: Changed UI string when deleting sheets

The message box that appears when deleting one or more sheets has been
changed from
"Are you sure you want to permanently delete the current sheet(s)?"
to
"Are you sure you want to delete the selected sheet(s)?"...
Task: i92896
Spec: -
Mail: daniel.rentz@sun.com

sc: Renamed "Notes" to "Comments" in two Calc dialogs

With issue 103139
(http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103139), "Notes" have
been renamed to "Comments". In two Calc dialogs, this change has now
been adapted ("Paste Special" and "Delete Contents"). Addionally, a
few keyboard shortcuts hav...
Task: i105808
Spec: -
Mail: daniel.rentz@sun.com

ui: Default Document Language

From m60 onwards an additional document language option of "default"
is available which is resolved at runtime from the session"s locale
settings to the best fit document language for the current session.

This extends the older ... [More] behaviour of detecting...
Task: i99577
Spec: http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/64348/Default_Document_Language.odt
Mail: cmc@openoffice.org [Less]