Writer Stuff Under Evaluation
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Improvements of language selection
It is pretty obvious that changing the language of either the whole document or only parts of it is comparably awkward in Writer. There is also no visual control about the language of the currently selected text. We have received several issues about this and the result is now consolidated in three of them.
Improving the language selection
Language selection by switching keyboard
Integration of component for language guessing
Evaluation of additional views in Writer
Here is a first compilation about motivations and ideas for new views in Writer. More can found in the main issues about this topic.
How to use page styles?
There are some issues around functionality in OOo that needs to be implemented with page styles. The UI problems created by this are discussed here.
Utilization of new Smart Tags API
In OOo 2.2 we will have an API for Smart Tags that is already enabled in the build. It will stay inactive until libraries using this API as a service provider are installed. In the next time we will review the API and create some libraries. Of course as this work can be done as an extension new developers can work on this topic easily. Interested developers are welcome to contribute. In case you are interested please join us on our dev mailing list.
Evaluation of other RFEs in Issue Tracker
Currently under investigation are
Behavior of lines in justified text separated by SHIFT-RETURN