Hi Patrick, > Hey, > > My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for my > software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that > requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our choice. I > decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with the software. > He suggested I do something simple, such as adding functionality to the > Writer's formula bar or something along those lines. > With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you > would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there are > any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level of > difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward to > helping improve OpenOffice.
Right now I really don't remember that anyone asked to add some new formula functionality. And it is also long since I've seen an issue to fix in this area. Ideally it would be nice if Writers calculator would offer the very same functionality (and syntax) as it available in Calc but I suspect that kind of task is far beyond the available time frame. May it would help if you state with what programming language you have experience, and much more important, how much time you have available for this. After all there are many things that could be done but quite a few of them would need a lot of time, while on the other hand some few may be too small to be acceptable to your professor. You should probably have a look at the ToDo lists for the various applications and maybe contact the project leads as well. As for list of ToDos (unfortunately there is no single place for them) you may look here: - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/ToDo - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/To-Dos - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Impress#Planned_.2F_ToDo.27s_.2F_Seeking_for_Community_support - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos And for a list of contacts: - http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
