Aqua snapshot, one month later
One month ago (already ! ), we proposed development snapshots of Aqua version of OpenOffice.org. What was the context ?Provide a snapshot was proposed during one of our weekly IRC meetings. To be honest, I firstly was not hot, because we didn't reach alpha state at this time.
But, discussing with some developers, they considered we should show to the Mac users community we really were working on a native version, and what we had at this time. Just not use alpha was the common request.
A bad point was the native filepicker integration : I had to add a hack to add it in the build, because our integration process do not allow us to mix cws, and needs a lot of time and a complex process for code integration.
To proof what I say : it is still not the case today ( one month later .. ). If we are lucky, it will be possible in probably 2 weeks.
And we had to decide what put inside, including the filepicker. I wrote "we", because I didn't decide alone. Please do not believe the opposite.
And frankly, I don't see any reason to regret now : since, a lot of bugs have been fixed, simply because we had an incredible feeedback.
If unsure, please have a look at the current aqua issues list
Please, continue to provide us feedback, even using X11 version !!
(we use the same codebase for Aqua version)
As example, the list issues the Mac porter Team fixed since :
- Impress : animations work now (excepted sound)
- export pdf works now (some remaining issues with arabian locales maybe)
- copy paste works partially (text only )
- 2 instant crashes vanished since new saltimer implementation ( spellchecker and quit )
- native fonts et OpenOffice.org bundled fonts are now usable -> equations are now correctly displayed, since OpenSymbol is found
- start of native comboboxes (needs work)
- listboxes ( not complete)
- window background uses Aqua theme
- Calc works (white cell issue solved)
- Writer works ( text input ok, space issue ... etc)
- Maths works (excepted braces, to be discussed soon )
- new Chart module is now included (since m214 resync)
We can include in the build (at least I do) native FilePicker, including the possibility to choose OpenOffice.org native one (allows URLs entries like http:// .. )
For a more complete list of changes, please have a look at Aqua Changelog
Asap, we will provide another snapshot, and we are searching the best way for that (waiting, the most adventurous can try to build from sources, using our well known AquaBuild wiki page ( soon, we expect to reach 30,000 reads :-).
If you see something wrong, or not clear, or even not optimized, feel free to login, and fix it : that's exactly what did Johan Henselmans two days ago ! Thanks Johan :-)
Libellés : aqua, development
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