Mac OS X Porting - Work Areas/Todo's

This page is intended to serve as a living ToDo list for the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X port. To keep things simple it contains the ToDos for both the X11 version and the upcoming Aqua version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X. The page is divided into different work areas which either assigned to a person in charge or are unassigned yet. Below each area there is a detailed list of todos which has to be maintained by the respective people himself. Persons who are in charge of a certain area are responsible for keeping their respective part of the page up-to-date.

If you're interested in contributing to the project please coordinate with Eric Bachard

Areas and ToDos Aqua Version

Messaging

Tino Rachui

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement messaging infrastructure	New	Unassigned

Windowing

Tino Rachui

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement salframe.cxx	New	Unassigned

Drawing

Stephan Schaefer

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement drawing support	In progress	Stephan Schaefer

Native Printing support

Yvan BARTHÉLEMY

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Make some docs	Done	Yvan BARTHÉLEMY
Native look & feel for Print and Print Setup	In progress	Yvan BARTHÉLEMY
Panel for OpenOffice.org specific options	New	Unassigned
Implement native Print support	New	Unassigned
Implement native Print setup	New	Unassigned

Work in progress, see: Mac OS X Porting - Native Printing

Description:

OpenOffice.org side:

AquaSalPrinter class is located in aqua/source/gdi/salprn.cxx

Headers are in:

vcl/inc/salinst.hxx 
vcl/inc/salgdi.hxx  
vcl/inc/salprn.hxx

Aqua implementation:
aqua/inc/salprn.h (AquaSalPrinter class implementation, inherits from SalPrinter)

Mac OS X API side:

Todo: implement missing methods, using Carbon API

Link for Mac OS X API documentation:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/CarbonPrintingManager_Ref/index.html

Key input

Unassigned

Todo	Status	Assigned to
accelerators for native menu	In progress	Ismael

Native sound support

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement native sound support	Started	Eric Bachard

New page has been updated.

See: Native Sound Implementation on Mac OS X

Estimation of code remaining to write: 40% (macosxplayer.cxx mainly)

Image Acquisition

Eric Bachard

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement Image Acquisition	In progress	Eric Bachard

See: Mac OS X Porting - Data Acquisition

Native font support

Eric Bachard

Todo	Status	Assigned to
ATS	Started	Eric Bachard

salatslayout.cxx License origin is justified here: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23283]

OpenOffice.org side:

See : Mac OS X Porting - Native Fonts

Carbon API implementation (binding) is made in salatslayout.cxx

ATS and ATSUI starting point: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ATS_Concepts/atsfonts_intro/chapter_1_section_1.html

Apple's starting page leading to deeper docs: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/TextFonts/Typography-date.html

Todo-list for native font implementation:

- missing methods (to be implemented):

bool ATSLayout::GetGlyphOutlines()
ATSLayout::InitFont()
ATSLayout::MoveGlyph()
ATSLayout::DropGlyph()
ATSLayout::Simplify()

- Fix known bugs:
 MultiLine does not work (writer cannot be used, because)
 Bad keyboard/charset ? (missig chars)
 When redrawing, everything is redrawn using the most little font size -> even the dialog boxes on menu bars
 Bad values returned 

- Implement MultiSalLayout
- Complete implementation  
- read Apple API [ Work in progress]
- describe current implementation: organisation / design [work in progress]
- design of new implementation [FIXME] find examples

Estimation of code remaining to write ~40 %

Done (mainly Stephan Schaefer, with initial salatslayout.cxx file written by Herbert Duerr)

Work in progress : understand MultiSalLayout

Resources: use sample code to test/initialize ATS server (using e.g. ATSUIDirectAccessDemo)

For more informations, see: Mac OS X Porting - Native Fonts

Areas and ToDos X11 Version

Packaging Packaging related tasks

Oliver Braun

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Improved packaging for OOo	Done	Oliver Braun

Installation Installation related tasks

Oliver Braun

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Provide an improved installer for OOo	New	Oliver Braun
Error messages during installation when no X11 is installed	Started (messages need to be localised and more info supplied)	Unassigned
Support language pack instalation	New	Unassigned

Desktop Integration Desktop integration related tasks

Oliver Braun

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Allow opening of documents with path names that need to be escaped for shell scripts	Integrated for 2.1 see [1]	Shaun McDonald
Save documents in ~/Documents by default	New	Unassigned
Use the Mac OS X key chain for document signing	New	Unassigned
Read proxy settings and user information from the system settings	New	Unassigned
Mac OS X address book integration	New	Unassigned
Make use of the Mac OS X spell checker	New	Unassigned
Improved clipboard support	New	Unassigned
Support for standard Mac OS X shortcuts according to HI guideline	New	Unassigned
Integrate native FileOpen/FileSave dialog into OOo	Started	Florian Heckl

Printing

Unassigned

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Improved printing support (CUPS)	Done	Oliver Braun
Use the native print dialog in OOo	New	Unassigned

Ease of use

Unassigned

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Reduce visible toolbars	New	Unassgined
Suppress icons in OOo menus by default	New	Unassigned
Suppress xterm window when launching OOo	New	Unassigned

Implement NeoLight plugin

Unassigned

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Implement NeoLight (spothlight plugin) in OpenOffice.org 2.0. For more informations, please have a look at [2]	New	Unassigned

Assurance Quality and Mac OS X port

Mac OS X QA

Unassigned

Todo	Status	Assigned to
Collect informations and manage Mac OS X QA on the wiki	New	Unassigned