Devel - OOo performance team start working now

On dev@openoffice.org mailing list has been announced a new performance team. Hopefully, their work will help OOo to be more and more popular. For more information look at the wiki.

Jan

Devel - Unused methods in OOo

Hi,

below are links to list of unused methods collected by callcatcher tool (see here) I focused on "the most interesting" modules in OOo, i.e. Writer (sw), Calc (sc), Base (dbaccess) and Formulas (starmath). There have been done some work on sw and dbaccess.
That's why they seems much "cleaner" than sc. Look at the log files from SRC680_m242 snapshot and compare results:

http://people.redhat.com/jnavrati/cclogs/cc.m242.dbaccess.log
http://people.redhat.com/jnavrati/cclogs/cc.m242.sc.log
http://people.redhat.com/jnavrati/cclogs/cc.m242.starmath.log
http://people.redhat.com/jnavrati/cclogs/cc.m242.sw.log

Some of these methods have been already removed (issues ooo#85182 and ooo#85185), but more work needs to be done.

Regards,

Jan Navratil

Devel - Image on a slide background in OOo

One could not imagine how it was difficult to put an image on a slide background. It is true that in OOo impress exists a very long way how to do that and a common user probably could not find it at all. What a pity ... :(


But now, everything has changed. I submitted a patch that add an entry to right-click menu and today you can see your favourite image on a slide background in a few clicks.

This screenshot presents how the menu looks like. There is a small change in a label, but that isn't important. More information you can find on the issue website or in a feature specification. You should see it in OOo 2.4.

Enjoy this feature and don't hesitate to write me your feedbacks.

Jan

Announcement - Let's start!

Hi everybody,

after six months since I've started to work on OpenOffice, I decided to set up my own blog and share my experiences with the OOo project. I'm just on the beginning of hacking, so I will present informations that I come accross and I suppose that most of them will be well known for the rest of the OOo community. But I hope it will help for those who starts with contributing as my own.
On the other hand, I'm going to prepare some tutorials that will explain some part of OpenOffice and how to use it to make life much easier.
So, you can see on this blog three types of posts (for now):

1. Announcement - general information about something (like this intro)
2. Development - stuff regarding hacking, coding and other development things
3. Tutorials - short howto's describing some issue in OOo

It could be more in the future, but at the beginning at least these three are enough.

So, I'm looking forward your comments, advices and suggestion. Feel free to contact my if needed.

Regards,

Jan Navratil