As discussed I propose to have the text splitted for end user and powerusers/developers. The text below is user friendly already, some parts could be moved to developer section.
I am also calling to have one term for our releases: call it snapshots or alpha. I am voting for alpha. For now we use 'alpha' term in about box and versining and 'snapshots' in announcements. Let's have it simple! On 12 June 2011 02:08, C. Boemann <c...@boemann.dk> wrote: > Here is the kind of text I would like (sorry for almost writing it completely > for "my" area): > > For the first snapshot we introduced a new engine to create the text layout. > This happened only days before the first snapshot, and since then we have > worked hard to remove as many bugs and making the text layout in general look > more correct is so many ways that it is impossible to list them all. So just > try out your favorite text documents, be it .odt, .doc or .docx format, and > you will see how much closer we have come to perfect display. One improvement > that will be very noticeable is how much better we handle anchored and inline > images. > > The .doc and .docx file formats are handled by small programs (that we call > filters), which essentially takes a .doc or .docx file and convert it into an > .odt file. From then on it's handled just as any other .odt file. From this > you > can see that .doc and .docx files both benefit from improvements in the text > layout, but also from improvements in the filters. And we are happy to say > that > once again our .doc and .docx filters have improved. For .docx we are far > better than say LibreOffice already, and for .doc we are getting very close to > being the best out there too. > > Words itself has improved a bit in the user interface department, and our > focus now shift even more towards improving the user interface for the third > snapshot. But already now you will find that we have better feedback of > progress during loading. Also the page and line numbers in the the status bar > at the bottom of the window now serves the double role of allowing you to go > to a specific page. > > As a teaser we can tell you that insertion of table of contents will be in the > third snapshot, and it will always be up to date (this is a first in the world > of word processing as far as we are a aware), so no longer any need to > manually remember to update it when you make changes to your document. We > may also have section columns in the next snapshot. These teasers are more to > show you that if we are looking at such advance features now, it just means > that the snapshot 2 we are announcing today is actually quite good if we > should say so ourselves. > > There has also been some great work done in making sure that we save the same > odt that we load without loss of information, when obviously not actively > modified by the user. This is technically known as round-tripping and is not > complete yet, but we can for sure say we have improved and our work has also > pinpointed the problematic areas, so expect to see further improvements moving > towards snapshot 3. > > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 23:30:33 Inge Wallin wrote: >> As far as I know, Cyrille has tagged snapshot 2 now. At least he updated >> the version to 2.3.72. >> >> This means that the release is imminent, and it's time for me to write a >> new announcement. So I'd like to get a grasp of what has happened since >> snapshot 1. >> >> Could you who have created some significant change write a reply to this >> mail (on the ML, of course) and tell me what you did? This is especially >> important if you have made user visible changes and UI improvements. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> -Inge >> _______________________________________________ >> calligra-devel mailing list >> calligra-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
