Posted
about 18 hours
ago
#i107419# - *Testproduct: Add characters to OpenSymbol font (spaces, dashes, formatting characters)
#i107426# - Presentation: Saving as .ppt with linked pictures loses the links.
#i107424# - framework: In the save dialog, strings are
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displayed on 3 or 2 lines
#i107421# - framework: binfilter: remove const warnings from binfilter
#i107422# - l10n: Improve helpcontent2 tree file generation
#i107429# - l10n: [JA] minor problems.
#i107430# - l10n: [JA] minor problems.
#i107431# - l10n: [JA] revise translations
#i107427# - sc: List box in .xlsx excel 2007 doesn't convert w/value range
#i107423# - sc: Show sort range dialog not only when one single row or column is selected
#i107418# - scripting: createEnumeration with array
#i107425# - sw: The Word Processor crashes by Ctrl+V from a website
#i107428# - sw: Variables in Writer-docs can not be of format text
#i107420# - sw: sw: remove trivial warnings [Less]
Posted
about 24 hours
ago
I know some of you read the title and thought “Oh cool! I'm dying for a
new user interface (UI). When will it finally be ready?” At the same
time, some of you thought “Nooooooo! I like the UI already, even if
there are a few
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little things here and there that annoy me. I wish they
would stop this talk of a new UI.”
Before you read the more important stuff below this, let's just take a
quick look at three basic questions.
1) Is there going to be a new UI for OpenOffice.org?
Yes. Improvements in interaction design (usability) will result in changes for the
user interface. Good interaction design considers how fast you can do
tasks which occur quite frequently and how easy you can figure out
things you've never done before. BTW, "New UI" isn't a very exact term.
We could just as easily say "revised UI" or "updated UI".
2) When will it be done?
Slowly but surely; over a long time; bit by bit. We will only change
things if there is a good reason. And gathering and analyzing data (the
"reason") takes time, as does designing improvements.
3) What is the goal of Project Renaissance?
To know and to understand our users as they are, and to help them
accomplish what they want to, by providing efficient access to valuable
functionality through a desirable user interface.
That said, the following is an elaboration on those three points and an
attempt to clarify any incorrect interpretations of Project Renaissance.
There is a great deal to do within the scope of Project Renaissance, and
since the OOo community regularly comes out with a new version of the
OpenOffice.org office suite, each version is an opportunity to improve
the interaction design. Slowly but surely. This usually involves UI
changes, but sometimes may only result in performance or other intangible changes not visible on the UI. A motto for Project
Renaissance is "form follows function".
In keeping with the goal of
providing efficient access to valuable functionality, experience thus
far has lead us to focus first on solving some fundamental problems so
we can build on those solutions in later stages of Project Renaissance.
One of the fundamental problems now in focus is reducing the complexity
of the very large number of graphic elements on the UI. This is a big
problem and so it will take time and many steps to work on it.
Improvements will be noticeable here and there as we go.
We've always said that Renaissance is a long-term project.
Unfortunately, many people got the wrong impression from the really
real-looking prototypes (probably because our developers are really good
at coding). Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your preference,
those prototypes were exploratory---just ideas we were trying out, not
the real solutions. What they, and the design idea collection before
them, did, was supply us with a lot of feedback that is invaluable in
the continued unfolding of the Renaissance work. "Unfolding" describes
not only the work but also what happens whenever we start to work on an
improvement.
For an excellent explanation, I would like to quote UX Architect,
Matthias Müller-Prove:
"Most, if not all UI problems get larger during the time you are working
on them. To a certain extent this is natural because you get more deeply
involved and gain a better understanding of the issue. You discuss the
topic with colleagues and incorporate their point of view into the
design. You discover new aspects that somehow match your topic. [...]
The challenge is to keep the chunks of UI problems you address
manageable. At the same time you have to keep an eye on the overall
structure of the product."
If you have a minute, you really should read the entire text on The
White Water Lily Effect.
So, fully aware of the challenge to keep the UI problems we address
manageable, our current focus is the task-oriented optimization of
interaction in Impress, due to be out in version OOo 3.3. More unfolding
of Project Renaissance will continue, bit by bit, step by step. This is
one of the first bits to reach the implementation stage.
To get a better idea of what "task-oriented optimization of interaction
in Impress" means, to see which issues are in this "manageable chunk" so
far, and to follow how the work is progressing, see the new pages in the
OOo Renaissance wiki.
Best regards,
The Renaissance Team [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
AuthorSupportTool is an extension for Writer. It adds new features for scientific publishing like source and citation management, better support of collaborative work with subversion and a visual editor for managing focal points. It is fully
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localized in english and german, but it can be easily translated into other languages via gettext / poedit. For further documentation see integrated extension help in OpenOffice.org help content.
Functions in detail:
Template wizard to set meta data and reusable unified layout
Management of bibliographic sources and reference styles
Graphical editor to organize brainstorming ideas and flow of thoughts
Cooperative work and build-in version control with Subversion
Element outliner for quick navigation and restructuring of the document
Personal notes tool and Post-its comments with restrictive access
Work progress and time management with extended statistics
Check for anglicism and sophisticated word repetition tool
External backup functionality to store and load local revisions of the document [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
by
h...@openoffice.org (Hamburg Release Engineering )
OOO320_m7 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.
Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone OOO320m7
Child Workspaces
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integrated:
automationooo320m6
[Automation]
Script fixes for greenstate OOo 3.2 based on m6 milestone
dba32j
ongoing DBA bugfixing towards 3.2
dv18
Fix for hourly extension update check
hb32showstoppers2
showstoppers for OOo 3.2
icuooo32
Upgrade ICU to 4.0.1
ooo32gsl06
GSL issues worthy of OOo32
ooo32gsl07
GSL related issues for OOo320
sw32bf08
OOo 3.2 show stopper fixes in Writer
tkr30
Update OpenSSL
ooo320m7masterfix [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
M. sick in the night, poor dear - very apologetic. Thank God she
has reached an age where the second round goes in a bowl, avoiding another
sheet reset. H. has done better - migrating to a stage where she sorts
herself out
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(mostly).
Breakfast, propped M. up listening to 'High Five' ( her name
for Enid Blighton's
'Five on a Treasure Island;).
Poked at kernel things, to my embarassment - my build succeeded,
but (it seems) the patch was using the wrong version of the cunning kernel
trace framework, and thus failed. Used a different kernel instead. Prodded
mail.
Why is it that firefox (3.5.3 for those interested), frequently goes
away into la-la land burning 100% CPU, doing (Lord knows what) - and that
then pkill -9 -f firefox is your only way out ? - you would
think that closing tabs, until you have a single simple page left might
help: but apparently not; annoying.
Spent a while trying to make ureadahead build, then trying to check
out libnih - the latest openSUSE packaged bzr is too old apparently to do
that without requiring a launchpad account. Depressed to read libnih - surely
we can add some void glib_init_allow_alloc_failure(void); method
such that the basic libglib-2.0.so pieces can be safely used
in system services ?
Call with Patrick. Discovered my kernel / glibc is too old to have
fiemap, only fibmap - the difference between a beautiful crisp extent based
world and a pixelized one - bother. [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
#i107400# - Chart: [sb111] Charts defaultcolors lost (all black)
#i107402# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] support BACKUP command
#i107404# - Drawing: CWS aw078: crash when converting to polygon
#i107410# - Installation: Installer does
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not delete start menu entry for previous version
#i107414# - Presentation: Editing text box causes border drawing glitch
#i107409# - external: openssl: build problem with ccache
#i107411# - framework: OOo3 opens an empty writer document on systemstart when quickstart is active
#i107416# - framework: invalid UNO_JAVA_CLASSPATH entry assertion
#i107415# - gsl: vcl: resizing with large size graphite font displays badly
#i107407# - l10n: sysui translations for .desktop files for language "kid" include '<' characters
#i107408# - qa: f_extras_sampleopen.bas/f_extras_samplefileopen.bas has two warnings
#i107413# - sw: BiDi contexts should have two text cursors (caret)
#i107403# - sw: Doc Image borders Stripped On Saving in 3.2
#i107406# - sw: Inserted Grafics/frames: Highlight actual alignment in menu same as wrap
#i107401# - sw: Mailmerge mixes frame position of recipients
#i107399# - sw: Multiple Find and replace should end at starting cursor position
#i107412# - sw: Record changes: Show the dialog from i9195 is a more intuitive way
#i107398# - sw: WW8: few extra empty rows get inserted in table when imported
#i107405# - udk: compiling testtools on wntmsci12 non-pro raises error box
#i107417# - xml: Calc is not processing the AutoFitWidth commands [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
by
h...@openoffice.org (Hamburg Release Engineering )
DEV300_m66 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.
Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone DEV300m66
Child Workspaces integrated:
buildtool07
This CWS
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contains some fixes for the build tool, such as:
- broken incompatible build modus
- busy waiting in multiprocessing modus
- some typo and style fixing
- ability to add modules automatically with "--from" and such
This CWS has changes, that should actually be in the buildtool06. Because of urgency, scm changes and related changes in last minors, the changes from buildtool06 have been transited to this CWS
calc32stopper4_DEV300
Calc 3.2 fixes
cmcfixes64
bridge and build fixes for 64bit and minority linux platforms
controltextrendering
allow controls contained in documents to render their text the
same way as text in the document is rendered.
hr67
CWS-Tooling: adapt "cws fetch" to the new style "source_config" source tree layout.
impress180_DEV300
OOo3.2 showstopper workspace
jl133_DEV300
bundled extensions for OpenSolaris
jl139_DEV300
linux build breaker in security module
linuxhppa1
Port OOo to Linux HPPA (PA-RISC)
native271
Changes for admin.pl, no office code changed
ooo32gsl01_DEV300
Graphics related OOo 3.2 showstoppers
ooo32gsl02_DEV300
3.2 showstoppers
sw33bf01
Fixes in Writer for OOo 3.3
writerfilter32bugfixes01_DEV300
Bug fixes to writerfilter and sw for docx files import
dev300m66masterfix [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66 which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see i107355) is available for download.
If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system
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IssueTracker.
Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next
Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html
MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
[eo] Literumkontrolilo por Esperanto evoluata de Marek Blahuš kadre de la organizo E@I.
[en] Spell-checking dictionary for Esperanto developed by Marek Blahuš in the E@I organization.
ANKORAŬ TESTATA: anoncadu cimojn per Issue Tracker
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(senpaga registriĝo necesa)
STILL BEING TESTED: please report bugs by Issue Tracker (free registration required) [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
#i107391# - Database access: tries socket connection even with "localhost" and Socket: blank
#i107397# - Installation: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: ooobasis3.1-en-US
#i107393# - Installation: version not updating
#i107394# -
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framework: Error 1316A when attempting to update to 3.1.1 from 3.1.0
#i107389# - framework: regular expression ^ by itself does not work
#i107396# - gsl: the font used to display the text should be the same of the one in the font list box
#i107390# - sc: "Calc" 's Macros don't record entered text
#i107388# - sc: Wrap Text Automatically
#i107395# - sw: Writer do not show any figure inserted from a file
#i107392# - sw: missing common word in dictionary [Less]
