Libre Office – what we fixed in 4.2/4.3

CLUC 2014 (http://2014.dorscluc.org/en/keynotes/#miklos), Zagreb
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1. LibreOffice
   what we fixed in
   4.2/4.3
   Miklos Vajna
   2014­06­17
   

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   Agenda
   ● Intro: what is LibreOffice?
   ● What we fixed in:
   ● 4.2 / stable
   ● 4.3 / fresh
   ● Prototypes
   ● Under the hood
   ● The Document Foundation
   ● How you can help
   

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3. Introduction
   

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   LibreOffice: Project & Software
   ● Free Software
   ● One million new
   unique IP / week
   ● Tens of millions of
   users, growing
   fast
   ● 2500+ commits
   last month
   ● 100+ developers
   0
   10 000 000
   20 000 000
   30 000 000
   40 000 000
   50 000 000
   60 000 000
   Cumulative unique IP's for updates vs. time
   not counting any Linux / vendor versions
   

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   The fork of OpenOffice.org
   ● It was hard to
   contribute
   

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   Platforms
   ● Most users are on Windows
   ● A considerable amount also on Mac
   ● Most developers are on Linux:
   

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7. What we fixed in 4.2
   

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   Start Center
   

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   GDrive integration (via libcmis)
   With
   thanks to
   Cuong
   Cao Ngo
   and
   Cedric
   Bosdonnat
   

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    Writer
    ● Character borders
    ● Thanks to Tamás Zolnai
    

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    Writer
    ● Select all now works, if doc starts with a
    table
    

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    Calc
    ● Conditional formats: bars and icons
    Customer requested feature:
    Implemented by a Collabora
    Engineer.
    

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    Calc: storage rewrok – before
    ScDocument
    ScTable
    ScValueCell
    ScStringCell
    ScEditCell
    ScFormulaCell
    ScNoteCell*
    ScColumn
    ScBaseCell
    Script type (1 byte)
    Text width (2 bytes)
    Broadcaster (8 bytes)
    Cell type (1 byte)
    Scattered
    pointer
    chasing
    walking cells
    down a
    column ...
    

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    Calc: storage rework – after
    ScDocument
    ScTable
    svl::SharedString block
    double block
    EditTextObject block
    ScFormulaCell block
    ScColumn
    Broadcasters
    Text widths
    Script types
    Cell values
    Cell notes
    

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    Calc: storage rework – results
    dates-worked.xlsx
    groundwater-daily.xlsm
    mandy-no-macro.xlsx
    mandy.xlsm
    matrix-inverse.xlsx
    stock-history.xlsm
    sumifs-testsheet.xlsx
    numbers-100k.xlsx
    numbers-formula-100k.xlsx
    numbers-formula-8-sheets-100k.xlsx
    num-formula-2-sheets-1m.xlsx
    0,1 1 10 100
    Wall-clock time to load set of large XLSX spreadsheets: 8 thread Intel machine
    Calc 4.1.3
    Calc
    Reference
    Log Time / seconds
    

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    Impress
    ● Initial Keynote import:
    Thanks to
    David Tardon
    (RedHat)
    

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17. What we fixed in 4.3
    

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18. Fantastic work on a
    diversity of file filters:
    Wordperfect, MS
    Publisher, MS Works,
    Keynote,
    Visio, MWAW (stable),
    Abiword, E-book,
    Freehand & more in
    progress.
    

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    Writer
    ● Long paragraphs:
    

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    Writer: printing notes
    These guys on Paper /
    PDF:
    And easier to format; thanks
    to Caolan McNamara
    

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    Writer: better OOXML shape interop
    

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    Calc
    ● Status bar: # of selected rows / columns
    

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    Impress
    ● Fit slide to current window:
    

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24. Prototypes
    

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    Collaboration
    ● Based on Telepathy:
    

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    Android
    ● Impress remote / Viewer / Desktop
    With thanks to Artur Dryomov
    

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    iOS
    ● Impress remote (beta) / Viewer
    

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28. Under the hood
    

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    Cleanups: .ui conversion
    ● 84% complete: 64 dialogs to go
    ● Checkout Caolan's blog to help out
    4.0 4.1 4.2 master
    0
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    UI Layout Dialog Conversion
    Layout UI
    old dlg
    old tab-page
    Remaining
    

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30. The Document Foundation
    

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    No Single Vendor Dominance
    ● No one
    can control
    more than 30%
    of the votes
    in any statutory
    body of TDF
    

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    Advisory Members
    

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33. How you can help
    

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    What to join the fun?
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    T
    ata Consultancy Services SYNERZIP
    SIL RedHat
    Oracle Openismus
    Nou & Off New Contributors
    Munich MultiCoreWare
    Linagora Lanedo
    Known contributors KACST
    Intel Igalia
    IBM Funky
    Collabora SUSE
    CodeWeavers CodeThink
    CloudOn Canonical
    Bobiciel Assigned
    Apache Volunteer ALTA
    Aentos
    Measuring and
    demonstrating diversity, and
    growth → a metric for
    maturity & dependability
    

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    Diversity
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    Active individual committers per month by affiliation
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    ata Consultancy Services SYNERZIP
    SIL RedHat
    Oracle Openismus
    Nou & Off New Contributors
    Munich MultiCoreWare
    Linagora Lanedo
    Known contributors KACST
    Intel Igalia
    IBM Funky
    SUSE Collabora
    CodeWeavers CodeThink
    CloudOn Canonical
    Bobiciel Assigned
    Apache Volunteer ALTA
    Aentos
    Volunteers
    

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    Easy Hacks
    ● “ LibreOffice is now ridiculously easy to build”
    (Karl Fogel)
    ● Thanks to the gnumake port & other cleanups
    ● We love people to contribute changes
    ● We want your first patch to be non­controversial,
    and easy, so you're up­to­speed and included
    outright:
    ● http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
    

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37. Collabora Productivity
    ●
    Michael Meeks
    ●
    Miklos Vajna
    ●
    Muthu Subramanian
    ●
    Tamas Zolnai
    ●
    Tomaz Vajngerl
    ●
    Tor Lillqvist
    ●
    Subsidiary of Collabora
    Leading Open Source Consultancy
    12 Certified LibreOffice Developers
    ●
    Team spun out of SUSE
    ●
    SUSE needed to focus …
    LibreOffices' growth areas:
    Windows, Android, iOS, not a great match.
    ●
    Best Possible outcome given the circumstances
    Collabora fixes your problems !
    Consultancy: new features, custom
    fixes. Long term support &
    maintenance.
    http://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/
    

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    Conclusions
    ● LibreOffice is an Xorg­like fork
    ● An open community, new members are
    welcome
    ● LibreOffice is diverse & easy to deploy
    ● Thanks for all your help and support!
    ● Interesting?
    ● Get involved, your contribution does help! :­)
    

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