On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:56:22 +0200 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I would like to give a short update where we are and what I would like > to propose. > > We had investigated in > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120476 - Inserting a slide > in presentation will freeze AOO with clean environment. > > It seemed to be a threading issue in this special scenario where many > things have influence. Bundled extension are using a separate new uno > process the first time the office is started and until the office gets > restarted. We found a fix to prevent the deadlock but the risk is high > to break something else and we looked for an alternative fix. > > We analyzed pre-registered (prereg) extension and tried to prereg the > minimizer and the presenter screen. This worked quite well so far but it > means that both extension are not longer visible in the extension > manager. This is the designed and expected behaviour for prereg > extensions because some "clever" people thought that these extension are > part of the office and can be seen as by default supported features. > > I would like to suggest that we integrate the minimizer and presenter > screen extensions as prereg extensions in AOO 3.4.1. We probably all > agree that both extensions provide useful features that should be > available by default. > > For the future we can think of an integration in the core and drop the > extensions completely to reduce the complexity. But this can be defined > later. > > We do currently some further tests ... > > Juergen As a long term objective, it would be really useful to expand the minimizer so that it minimised Writer documents, targetted for a specific resolution output. Obviously this is not something that could happen overnight, but I suggest it as a worthwhile extension. Such a module might be shared between Writer and Impress, so might not add much bulk. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
