Well I indeed tried to describe the technical terms while still keep telling about as many features as possible. So I think this is indeed directed towards end users already, but I'm naturally open to improvements. It was after all just a response to call for announcement content
On Sunday 12 June 2011 19:53:06 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
