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Κυκλοφορεί σε λίγες μέρες το Ximian Desktop 2 (XD2)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ximian.com">www.ximian.com</a><br>
Διαβάστε:<br>
Συνέντευξη του Nat Friedman στο OS News<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705">http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705</a><br>
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-Ενδιαφέρον παρουσιάζουν οι αλλαγές της Ximian στο
Openoffice(fontconfig,gtk,cups intergation κτλ)<br>
-κάπου λέει οτι το ΧD2 περιλαμβάνει τα agfa fonts λέτε να έχουν και
ελληνική υποστήριξη;<br>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"><b>8. What changes have you
made to OpenOffice.org when compared to its vanilla version?</b> </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"><a
href="http://img.osnews.com/img/3705/xd4.jpg" title="Ximian Desktop 2"><img
src="cid:part1.04090703.07020608@yahoo.gr" width="160" height="120"
alt="Ximian Desktop 2" align="left"></a> <i>Nat Friedman:</i> We've
done about six months of heavy development on OOo, all focused on
improving consistency across the desktop and compatibility with
Microsoft documents. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana">We don't _want_ to have any
delta against the upstream OOo tree, so we're going to be working to
get all of those changes upstream now that this release is done. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana">Here's a dump of some of the
key new features in our OOo: </font></p>
<blockquote> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - ~1,000 new
alpha-blended icons that are aesthetically consistent with the
rest of the desktop. We use large icon mode by default. We
also have some other new art in some of the wizards and of
course the splash (which no longer makes your desktop unusable
while each application starts up). </font>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Shares the Gtk theme
elements ("theme chameleoning"). Uses fontconfig, AA fonts
everywhere in the UI now. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Mapping of MSFT document
fonts to Agfa fonts (which XD2 includes). </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> Also, our artists drew a
whole new font just to handle the bullet mappings (which aren't
fully covered by Agfa's fonts). </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - GNOME-VFS integration so
you can open any files the VFS can get to. This includes files
on SMB and NFS shares. We even handle the authentication for
these shares (Michael Meeks redid the authentication layer in
OOo), so you get prompted if the share is password protected. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Nice CUPS printing
integration so you get the same printer list in OOo you get
everywhere else in the desktop. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Support for the recent
files spec so that System->Recent Files reflects the
documents you've opened in OOo. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Uses MSFT file formats by
default, reflecting the reality of most of the documents you
will receive. No longer tells you you're about to lose all
your data when you save in an MSFT format. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Removed the
non-redistributable GPC library, replaced it with libart so
that we can ship OOo with better support for importing
PowerPoint presentations. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Integrates nicely with
Galeon and Evolution. OOo HEAD actually does Evolution
addresbook mailmerge, which we're looking forward to. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - Includes a number of
foreign-language dictionaries. </font></p>
<p> <font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana"> - We've also done some
performance tweaks and fixed a number of customer-reported
bugs. Our turnaround time on fixes for document importing
issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty
remarkable. </font></p>
</blockquote>
<font size="2" face="Arial,Verdana">That's a quick summary; we have
nearly 100 patches against OOo. Check out the .src.rpm for the full
list :-).</font><br>
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