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OpenOffice.org 3 Beta

Planned Features for 3.0 Release

• OpenDocument:
  • ODF 1.2 Specification
  • ODF formula specification
  • ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
  • ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf
• Bibliographic
  • Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
  • New field type to support formatted text
  • Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2
• Performance Improvements
  • Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
  • Drawing Engine
• Impress
  • Office 12 Import Filter
  • Table support in Impress
  • Presenter Screen
• Calc
  • Office 12 Import Filter
  • Compliance with ODF formula specification
  • GETPIVOTDATA function
• Writer
  • new Notes2 module
  • Office 12 import filter
  • Web-Html
  • ODF documents’ metadata editor
  • Preview of hyperlinks inside the document
  • MediaWiki Extension
• Extensions:
  • API enhancements
  • GUI enhancements - The GUI should be redesigned to get a more modern look. A good guideline is the new IBM Lotus Symphony that uses dynamic panels. This is better than MS Office’s “ribbon”, at least for documents, because it saves space on the top (normally documents are vertical).
  • Option page
• Better VBA?
• MacOSX Aqua Port
• Windows_Vista Enhancements:
  • new File Dialog
  • visualization of Meta data in Explorer
• Web services
  • Web Services wizard?
• %%%OpenOffice.org%%% Repackaging
  • Repackaging step one

Source http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features

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