Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

Le 2010-10-18 04:16, Cedric Bosdonnat a écrit :
> Hi Alexandro,
>
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 23:10 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > I am very positive about making improvements on things like Writer, however
> > I don't know many people use the bibliographic features.  On the opposite I
> > know about many things that many users used, that could be fixed straight
> > away and improve the usability on many users.
> ...
>
> IMHO there could be small wins here that would help a lot of people to
> join us (or at least use LibreOffice when they weren't using OOo).
>
> > Things like being able to change the orientation of an OOo page, without
> > needing to do so many clicks and changing styles and so forth.
> Sure, We need some nice UI ideas here. The coding shouldn't be too
> complex as we already have the page styles. ...

One way to do it easily would be through a "macro" command that would 
insert two page breaks with style change and rotate the page in between.

Other features needed in Writer:
- Less predefined styles. Ideally, I would prefer to have all functions 
such as heading level, numbering... , but without the actual style 
sheets defined. InDesign is fairly good in that regard. At the very 
least, the numerous Bullets and Number styles (ex.: Bullet 1, bullet 1 
beginning, bullet 1 end, bullet 1 next...) This is especially so 
considering that there also are a separate set of styles for bullets.
- Perfect image and spreadsheet insertion in Writer. Right now, it's 
impossible to do it perfectly when things are transferred in a vectorial 
format. Amongst other problems, if one inserts a drawing and shrinks it 
at 50%, fonts are not shrinked (Windows XP and Windows 7).
- "Insert File" should work with standard and Office formats. I.e. one 
should be able to insert an odt drawing or an ods spreadsheet.

In Calc, my wish list includes:
- Some way to make equation-writing easier when, for example, complex 
fractions and trigonometry are involved. Ideally, integrating Math-style 
equation writing into Calc would help with those crazy equations that I 
have in engineering.

In Impress
- A series of default effects that would be easy to pre-configure
- A timeline of effects that would be similar to the "advanced 
chronology" of MsOffice 2003, but even better. Quite frankly, I find 
effects even harder to do than in MsOffice 2003. Having a group of lines 
appearing successively by appearing from the left (normal reading 
direction) should not require three steps as in MsOffice or 5 steps as 
in OpenOffice.


LONG TERM WISH LIST

Finally, a long term wish list would be complete integration of most 
modules at the document level. In other words, if I make a long report, 
I would:
- Create a text document in a way similar to what is done with Writer.
- When I come to tables, I would create a table as I currently do and I 
will be able to use all character, paragraph and style functions that 
are in Writer. But I would also be able to use all Calc functions 
(equations, formatting, etc.), sort either by line or column... exactly 
as if I had created a Calc sheet.
- Similar behaviour for graphics. There is no need for the very limited 
graphic abilities of Writer (or Calc) because we would define a graphic 
zone and in that zone, all Draw functions would work as if I had created 
a drawing in Draw.
- All these "parts" would be saved in the same Writer document because 
after all, they are all part of the same report; yet, I would still be 
able to fully edit all parts of the document from within the same file.

Similar behaviour would be expected from other modules. For example, if 
I do a major spreadsheet , I should be able to use the word processor in 
a cell or in a group of cells. Likewise, Impress would often benefit 
from paragraph styles as defined in Writer and full-fledge spreadsheets.

--
Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net

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