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State of Gnumeric
%left
What is Gnumeric
A spreadsheet
Created by Miguel almost 4 years ago
Push GNOME & GTK support for large applications
"As close to Excel as necessary but no closer"
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%%bgrad 0 0 128 0 1 "blue2" "black" "black" "black" "blue4" "blue3" "blue4"
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State of Gnumeric
%left
Goals
Provide replacement for proprietary spreadsheets
Use MS strategy 'Embrace Extend ...'
Concentrate of minimising cost of transition
Plan for the future
%pause
Produce a high quality spreadsheet
Correctness
Maintainability
Completeness
Performance
Extensibility (new)
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State of Gnumeric
%left
Overall State
This was a good year
1.0 (aka Embrace) !!!
Docs
Existing features more robust
Internationalization improved
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Release protocols paid off
Stability
# of bugs
Portability
Test suite
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State of Gnumeric
%left
User visibile additions in 1.0
Graphs
Frozen Panes
Grouping
Data Validation
Search / Search & Replace
Table creation
Better statistical tools
Lots of docs
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State of Gnumeric
%left
Developer features in 1.0
GnumericExprEntry
Extend and polish 'Dependent'
Improved parse errors
SheetObject framework starts to make sense
Per Sheet style hash
Just in time render for expressions
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Things that did not make it in
Use of Gnumeric as Bonobo::{Control,Embeddable}
Support just in time render and span
Conditional formating
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State of Gnumeric
%left
User Features already in 1.1
Lots of UI improvements from port GTK2
SPEED!
Mail Merge
Greatly improved solver
More numeric accuracy and stability for stats
Make analysis tools undoable
Real time data feed
Make most dialogs pseudo-modal
Import encrypted MS Excel workbooks
Some support for protection
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State of Gnumeric
%left
Planned changes before 1.2
Preferences dialog
Improve graphs
Rewrite format selection widget
Filters
Conditional formatting (might get bumped)
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State of Gnumeric
%left
Architecture changes already in 1.1
uHash for dep lists
Move cells fully to link/unlink life cycle
Custom allocators
Support images directly (no bonobo)
XL style auto colour support
Use pango for font selection (not gnome-print)
Evaluation time dependenencies
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
Planned changes before 1.2
Rewrite format engine to be utf8 friendly (and sane)
Move to RenderedRegion
Plugin support for menu & toolbars
Rework text import dialog
New function doc framework
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
Planned changes before 1.2
Rewrite format engine to be utf8 friendly (and sane)
Move to RenderedRegion
Plugin support for menu & toolbars
Rework text import dialog
New function doc framework
%pause
Wishlist changes for 1.2
Undo journal
Scripting API Proposal (might get bumped)
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
Plans
1.2
Fast turn around
Tied to gnome2 release
Freeze in June
July/Aug release (optimistic ?)
Target Financial Market
%pause
2.0
Pivots (pushed back from 1.2)
Gui/Core split (might still be in 1.2)
Release within 1 year of 1.2
Target some support for all major XL features
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
Failures
SheetView
Embeddable Gnumeric
Using Bonobo
Using GnomePrint
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
Active Gnumeric Community (last 3 months)
Jody Goldberg Morten Welinder
Andreas J. Guelzow Jon K Hellan
Jukka-Pekka Iivonen Almer S. Tigelaar
Kevin Breit Alexander Kirillov
Aaron Weber Eric Baudais
Adrian Custer
C. Scott Ananian Chema Celorio
Jakub Steiner Joshua R. Odom
Juan Pablo Mendoza Michael Meeks
Rodrigo Moya Wayne Schuster
Yukihiro Nakai Zbigniew Chyla
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
The competition
Excel
More Features
Integrated Office Suite
Faster
Codebase quality ??
%pause
Open/Star Calc
More Features of varying quality
Integrated Office Suite
Slower
Cumbersome Codebase
%pause
KSpread
Fewer Features
Integrated Office Suite
Much Slower
Needs lots of work
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%right
State of Gnumeric
%left
How we stack up (according to me)
Pros
Fastest/Smallest Free spreadsheet
Clean Codebase (mostly)
Still have maintainer level perspective
Guppi is Beautttiiiiiffuuuulll
Cons
No Integrated Office Suite
Missing Features
Weak Use of Guppi
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State of GNOME Office
%left
What is GNOME Office ?
Loose collection of programs ?
Integrated suite of applications ?
A set of supporting libraries ?
Applications associated with GNOME Office
Gnumeric Guppi Abiword
Evolution Dia Sodipodi
Toutdoux Mrproject Achtung
Gnucash Gimp Galeon
Libraries associated with GNOME Office
Gnome Print LibXML GLib/GTK+
LibOLE GAL/EEL wvWare
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%%bgrad 100 100 128 90 1 "black" "red" "black"
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State of GNOME Office
%left
The Good
Our Apps are strong
Solid 1.0 releases of many (abi soon ?)
Good press
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The Bad
No integration
Little recognition
Replication
Not much press
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State of GNOME Office
%left
Things to consider
OpenOffice is usable now
No presentation program on horizon
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What can we do
Create some common libraries
Produce an official 'GnomeOffice' package
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State of GNOME Office
%left
Shared Problems
Fonts
Document centric functionality
Editor style apis
Stuctured file format (shared with OO?)
Support common MS Office features (Escher, WMF/EMF)
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