[Open Office] OOo Status digest issue #7 - June 18th 2007

[Hubert Figuiere]

This is the weekly status digest of what the Novell
OpenOffice team is up to. It will relate changes made to OpenOffice
(ooo-build or upstream) and list important work in progress.

Week June-11 to June-17 2007:

- various 64bits fixes (upstream CWS sixtyfour12)

- Released OO 2.1 for Windows on http://download.novell.com/

- Fixed a problem with the wpg importer/ It resulted in a
locale-dependency in OdgExporter.cxx. Same in libwpd and libwps. Likely
to be a release libwpd-0.8.10

- Fixed gnome-screensaver crasher

- Added a new VBA interface 'XNames' to implement the Workbook.Names
property in VBA

- More EMF+ work



Still In progress:

- evaluating the use of git as a version control system for OpenOffice.
Main obstacle: windows.
- OpenXML import / export (Excel and PowerPoint) in the xmlfilter02 CWS:
the PPTX importer now import text. 
- OpenXML (Word) in the writerfilter2 CWS.
- More VBA support
- SoC mentored by Michael for the new GUI layout code.
- SoC mentored by Jan (kendy) for the SVG import.