There are two big fronts where there has been no change in AOO for a good while and would be rather simple and quite significant if some developers can put behind it.
Presentations: 2 big problems with presentation: - We still do it like it's 1993 - We still do it like it's 1963 We still trying to do webcasts in scripting language like Perl, and ASP, really? ASP? We still get ourself infront of a crowd and project into a opaque screen in an age when everyone have multiple bright high resolution HD displays in their pocket or their laps. We really need to step up in the area of webcasting. For a simple script that uses a template, we could do much better if we can update our languages to something more modern like PHP, (yes as modern as 2001). And maybe make up for the lost time and implement Node.js. Updating the webcast wizard and the languages is something that a developer with enough experience could do in a weekend, and somebody with more time could actually make it even better. Here is when both ideas can merge. Why can't we use a small embeded server (like the python's SimpleHTTPServer from the PyUNO Standard Library included in any AOO copy). And use some GUI mechanism to broadcast our presentation over the LAN. That way we can just put the URL into our projection and people (in the back) can 'connect' to our LAN broadcast and see it like if they were right upfront. This seems like a hack, but also very useful to do if you are used to doing live conferences. If you want to go beyond this idea, I encourage people to think on what can we do on our part to make web deployment of presentations easier. Think pre-recorded presentations like what Slideshare do (check image): http://www.dalebasler.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/slidecast.jpg Transforming impress into an authoring program might be a bit disruptive, but it's certainly useful to have a single audio recording that allow us to map our slides to the timeline of the audio in order to generate a self-containing file that could be the closest to a youtube presentation. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic < stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > >I checked LO and its list of spreadsheet functions. I find list of > function which does not exist in AOO. > > Large amount of this new spreadsheet functions (77) in LO are old > functions but redesign in that way that they are now compatible with Excel > 2010. Again: if we want that AOO be attractive for new users, we need this > functions too. > Regards, > Wlada > > 2014-09-08 19:42 GMT+02:00 Marco A.G.Pinto <marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt>: > > Here are some of my suggestions: >> 1) Add a 64-bit version for Windows >> 2) Add the extension LanguageTool to the package so that people have >> access to grammar checking >> 3) Images resize in the edges should proportionally resize images >> without the need of pressing CAPS (more user friendly) >> 4) When pasting text it should appear a radio button like in M$ Office >> to select the type of paste (plain text, merge, etc). >> 5) Allow more than one language in the UI, for example, pt_PT pre and >> post reform. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Kind regards, >> >Marco A.G.Pinto >> ---------------------- >> >> >> On 06/05/2014 09:49, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >> >> Now that OO 4.1 is released (and the tidy up of loose ends is in progress), >> perhaps it is time to start discussion on proposals for improvements and >> additions to OO 5.0. >> >> Where should this best be done? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
