Difference between revisions of "Mac OS X Porting Reviewers Guide for OpenOffice.org Aqua"

Revision as of 15:56, 10 September 2008

Draft : This page aims to create a reviewers guide, mainly maintained by the hard-core devs from the Mac port (but not only). Means the information has been put in random order, and maybe this is completely uggly. Please contribute if you think the outline is not correct, or if you catched an error .. or ..

Thanks in advance !!

Supported Versions and Architectures

Please note:

• Mac OS X 10.3 (aka Panther) is no longer maintained after 2.2. version included
• There is officialy no Universal Binaries archive provided, and you have to take care of the architecture (mentionned in the archive name)

New features coming with the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org ( 3.x )

FIXME: add screenshots / links for high resolution images, for every feature

In addition of all the changes of the 3.0 papported to the 2.0 version, the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org brings the following new features (non exhaustive list)

• Install by simple drag and drop.

• The Aqua version of OpenOffice.org no longer needs X11

• NEW Start center

• Look and Feel Aqua, using Cocoa API

• Main Application Menu on the main menu ( on Top of the screen ) ( no more menus in the window frames)

• Improved accessibility (Voice Over, Zoom, Contrast .. nd so on)

• Apple System fonts are transparently used (ATS server)

• Integrated Mac OS X Addres Book

• Media Player using QuickTime ( videos and sounds: all QuickTime supported formats are supposed to work inside OpenOffice.org)

• Integrated Apple SpellChecker

• Copy Paste

• Drag and Drop

• Native Print Dialog box

• Cocoa FilePicker

• Spotlight Plugin

• QuickLook plugin (limited to Mac OS X 10.5.x aka Leopard)

• Multi monitors support

• ... complete me (work in progress )

Scheduled features ( 3.1 )

• Improved antialiasing FIXME: add a link

• Apple Remote in Impress => see Apple Remote Implementation

• Proxy Icon implementation => see Proxy Icon Implementation

• OpenGL transitions in Impress => see OpenGL transitions in Impress

• Truer compatibility with WebDAV-connected file systems => see issue 81536

• COMPLETE ME ...

Installation

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We suppose you already downloaded an OpenOffice.org Aqua archive ( 3.0 version or superior )

TODO :

• screenshots !!
• explain the .dmg
• explain how to use it
• comment the prefs, where they are located (shortcut)
• describe the preferences, and what is important for the Mac user
• how to locate/remove them

Mount the archive

A double clic is sufficient. If the archive is valid, and nothing goes wrong, you should obtain

[screenshot]

Copy the Bundle in the Install dirC

In the frame, just drag the "OpenOffice.org" Icon on the "Applications" Icon : the Bundle will be copied into the Applciations folder.

The next step will start once this one will be finished

Dock the OpenOffice.org icon

What means dock an application ?

Dock an application means put its icon on the dock. This will allow to make the icon always visible, and then, start the application just clicking the icon !

Note: the number of icons you can dock is limited. (say around 40, what is not that bad ;-)

Process to dock the OpenOffice.org icon

1) Go in the Applications folder

2) Drag the OpenOffice.org icon somewhere in the dock (e.g. between two applications)

That's all !!

First launch

At the first launch, you'll be invited to answer a few questions. Please provide us feeedback : this is very important for us to improve the product.

FIXME : screenshots

Personnalisation

Printing

Change the iconset

menus modifications

FIXME: provide examples+ screenshots

Using Webdav

Page created: Ericb 16:54, 10 September 2008 (CEST)