Currently, extensions programmers have no access to the deployment process of an extension. With CWS tkr35 the new interface XDeploymentHooks was introduced. An extension programmer may uses this interface to get a notification and execute custom code during the deployment and undeployment process.

To activate the deployment hooks simple add the <deploymentHook>-Tag to your description.xml. The tag contains the service name of the XDeploymentHooks implementation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<description xmlns="http://openoffice.org/extensions/description/2006" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <version value="0.0.1"/>
<deploymentHooks service="com.foo.DeploymentHooksTest"/>
    <identifier value="com.foo.DeploymentHooksTest"/>
    <display-name>
        <name lang="en">Deployment Hooks Test Extension</name>
    </display-name>
</description>

For more information see wiki.

tags: extensions openoffice.org

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m71 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following download page:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m71_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m71_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc5.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.0rc5_md5sums.txt

tags: candidate openoffice.org qa release

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc4.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.0rc4_md5sums.txt

tags: candidate openoffice.org qa release

Barely one and a half years after the initial plan, a new print UI has now found its way into OpenOffice.org with the integration of CWS printerpullpages into the latest developer milestone DEV300m70. This took a while longer than intended, but I think the result is worth the effort. Many thanks to all the many people who made this possible (in no particular order): Mathias Bauer (Sfx), Andre Fischer (Impress), Thomas Lange (Writer), Christian Lippka (Impress), Niklas Nebel (Calc), Christoph Noack (User Experience), Regina Henschel, Hasan Ilter (QA), Jörg Skottke (QA), Thorsten Bosbach (QA), Oliver Craemer (QA), Eric Savary (QA). (I hope I didn't forget anyone).

The new UI and the underlying printing infrastructure (which change quite a bit under the hood) can now be tested; if you find any issues (of which there undoubtedly will be some, in such a large change there are invariably some bugs that eluded our best efforts of finding them), please report them. The most prominent new end user features are

• Print Preview inside the print dialog on all platforms
• Built-In N-Up printing
• Application specific options are no longer hidden behind an "Options..." button but available in the dialog itself and switching them is directly visible in the preview where applicable.
  

tags: openoffice.org printing

Automated tests on release candidates have been finished and all results of automated tests are green state. All Cat0-Tests required for a release finished without errors or warnings (except #108549 on MAC) testing english language builds. See the following graphics for details:

Enjoy OpenOffice.org 3.2 once released....

tags: automated_tests qa

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc3.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.0rc3_md5sums.txt

tags: candidate openoffice.org qa release

Please read Christoph Noack's second blog posting on his visit in Hamburg, which he begins with:

"This is my second – and last – posting which covers my two days stay “UX meeting in Hamburg”. In the last posting, I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for OpenOffice.org. Now, we will have a look at Impress and the printing improvements."

 BTW
It seems from the comments I got and notes I read on the list, that we humans are indeed more pleased to be F2F than only bits and bytes. ;-)

Kind regards,

Liz 

tags: renaissance user-experience

Last week Christoph Noack from the User Experience (UX) community took time out of his busy schedule to visit Hamburg and the Sun office for face to face (f2f) discussions on UX topics.  Be sure to see his blog post on "day one" to hear what went on. Be watching for "day two" as well.

For my part, I can say it was a very productive visit with many meetings and long talks. It is good to be there in real-life sometimes instead of just virtual. Although I have to say the sleep mode is easier to achieve on my computer than in real life. ;-)

Speaking of virtual vs real-life, what are your thoughts about non-f2f situations like webinars or conferences solely online? Is that a good or bad thing? Perhaps you could leave a comment here to tell me if you have had good or bad experiences with one or the other. What do you prefer? A mix? Which one would would you be more likely to attend and why?

Have a great day, both virtual and real.

Liz :-)

tags: renaissance user-experience

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker:

Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc2.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.0rc2_md5sums.txt

tags: candidate openoffice.org qa release