Re: Some ideas for next version

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 29 novembre 2004 à 18:23 -0500, Jody Goldberg a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > - pivot tables (I don't use that so often and I was somewhat surprised,
> > but everybody but one asked for them).
>
> This is high on the list.
>
> > - translation of function names as is xl an OOo-calc (this has already
> > been discussed).
>
> As soon as we branch we're going to implement the long awaited
> function doc separation that would give us the hooks necessary to
> implement this.
>  
> > And much less often:
> > - scripting.
> This is also high priority.  On par with pivots.
>
> > - 3D graphics.
> To my mind there are two types of 3d.
> - surface plots : These would potentially be useful
> - 3d bar/col/pie ... : I really can not see the allure.  If someone
>   wants to write this we would review the patch, but it's not on the
>   list of things that seem important.

May be it is not so useful but it might be easier to implement than
surfaces (even if it is possible to use code I wrote for contour plots),
so once we have 3D axis, may be I'll try some thing with 3D columns.

> > - curve fitting in graphs.
> This would definitely be nice, along with several other extensions
> to the charting engine.

I have already some code, but not usable yet. I have some ideas about that and I'll detail when I'll have a 
patch to submit.

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>
> We tend to keep our working notes in
>     http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnumeric/BUGS?only_with_tag=MAIN&view=markup
> Although it currently focuses on 1.4.1
>
> To your list I'd add
>     - RTL text/layout (This is partly done already)
>     - persistence for external references
>     - the libgoffice split
>
> However, I'd also like to note that we're considering moving to
> 6 month release cycles.

This is very short IMHO. If we really want a new minor version twice a
year, we should fork soon.