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Thursday, 19 Jul 2007
Feature in OOo 2.3
Thorsten Ziehm

For OOo 2.3 it is time to count the new implementations up. Feature Freeze was reached two weeks ago. 42 features and 212 enhancements are integrated and can be viewed and tested in build m221. The developer snapshot was announced by Joost Andrae 2 days ago. To get an overview about all integrated Features and Enhancements take a look at the following Wiki page : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_2.3.

As for the past minor release some very old issues are integrated. Here are 2 of my favorites:

  • 1761: The view of text documents is centered for Writer. This wish by community is nearly 6 years old and has 118 votes. It wasn't so easy to implement, but now it is realized.

  • 41800 : The effect 'Move along curve' is re-implemented. This issue is 2,5 years old (with 128 votes) and describes the problem, which you could have, when you restructure a whole project. With the restructure of the presentation engine this effect where killed for OOo 2.0. But now it is re-implemented.

Beside the integration of some funny and very helpful enhancements, we shouldn't forget the major contributions for this release. One of the biggest is the new chart module. All information can be found here. Last but not least for security reasons in OOo 2.3 the Macro Security Default Level will change to High – see 79170.

This feature release was the first one with a release cycle of 6 months. A mass of changes were integrated and in nearly 2 weeks Code Freeze is planned and the release date should be hold at begin of September this year. The development and QA teams are working now on finalizing the version and on fixing major issues. So please take the developer snapshots and check the new features or do your daily work with this version. If you find major problems, please discuss them in QA mailing list and/or write an issue.

If you are interested in working with the QA project, please contact one of the OOo QA Team leads.

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Great. The only thing I think its missing is an Outlook alternative. But, that's not that important...

Posted by Michael on July 19, 2007 at 09:33 PM CEST #

Centred Writer documents. Bravo!!

Posted by Peter Hillier-Brook on July 19, 2007 at 09:33 PM CEST #

Ehm, with Writer window magnified, in my screen having the page "left aligned" leaves me much more space for toolbar floating windows (i.e. the ones that pop up if you press F5, or F11). Now you need a much wider screen to have enough space, or switch from full windows to a resized one... is it really an improvement? What about http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50135 instead? This has been targeted for 2.3 for a while, and now is "Target milestone: OOo 2.x" sigh. I've a list of some very annoying bugs/strange defaults that are very hurting for OOo adoption, that have been left in the dust even if an impressive work has been done in 2.3 (around 1900 bugs/issues/ehn/feature from 2.2.x!). The work of the developers is impressive, just maybe the priority list should be shifted much more toward "average user needs and expectations". i.e. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10530 "Target milestone: ---" (not set!) In any case, great work!

Posted by markit on July 19, 2007 at 11:15 PM CEST #

markit, of course the "centering" works with the space left by the docked windows. So in case you have your Stylist (F11) and Navogator (F5) docked and not floating you will not have a problem.

Posted by Mathias Bauer on July 20, 2007 at 12:38 AM CEST #

I would love to see the issue 17203 on appliying styles to a page been solved. The issue is quite old (2003) and also have plenty of votes.

Posted by JZA on July 25, 2007 at 08:19 PM CEST #

Issue 62989 is pending resolution since early 2006. Can someone pls shift this to higher priority and resolve. I have raised this in the QA mailing lists but not received any response.

Posted by Gopal on July 27, 2007 at 07:34 AM CEST #

JZA: something like issue 17203 is in the making; you can find some blog entries in GullFOSS about I see the problem of page styles in Writer. I even think that some things (like e.g. inserting headers) should be possible without explicitly working with page styles. More about that in a not so distant future in the "discuss" list of the ux project.

Posted by Mathias Bauer on July 27, 2007 at 11:22 AM CEST #

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