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OpenOffice 3.0 by default in Intrepid 8.10  
Written by vitorgatti the 15 Oct 08 at 19:04. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Won't implement
I think this would be great for everybody, because OpenOffice 3.0 has A LOT of improvements that will help people that uses this kind of program constantly to migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice.
Support for MS Office 2007 documents and PDF editing are two good examples.

I know that Intrepid will be released in 15 days, but I think there aren't going to be a lot of crazy bugs to be fixed in "only" 15 days by developers if this program gets upgraded in Ubuntu repositories!

Think about that and let's do this now, instead of waiting more six months (Ubuntu 9.04) just to get this great program by default... you know, if more good programs comes by default, more the newbies and veterans will like!

Developer comments
Unfortunately, since the final release of OpenOffice 3 was delayed, there was not enough testing time to include it by default in Intrepid.
OpenOffice 3.0.1, to be released on Dec. 2, is a bugfix only release and should prove to be much more stable than the current release. This release will be available on the backport repository.
More infos: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3447
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #14433
Written by vitorgatti the 15 Oct 08 at 19:04.
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Make it possible to rotate images in OO.o  
Written by cumulus007 the 26 Aug 08 at 14:56. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Not an idea
It's impossible to rotate images directly in Writer. I have to open them in Draw first and export the Draw image into Writer. That just sucks. I want to import a picture and rotate it instantly. Please add this function to OO.o!
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12570
Written by cumulus007 the 26 Aug 08 at 14:56.
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Ability to edit PDF in Open office  
Written by stinger30au the 19 Sep 08 at 22:03. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Implemented
like the title says. i know there is editing software availible in the repos, but open office is much more powerful and would be awesome if this was available
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #13438
Written by stinger30au the 19 Sep 08 at 22:03.
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OpenOffice 3.0 takes really too much time to start-up.  
Written by grofaty the 19 Feb 09 at 13:12. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Not an idea
Opening OpenOffice program takes way too much for normal use. I have been using Microsoft Office, but it starts way faster then OpenOffice. Can't OpenOffice be made to quickly start-up. It probably starts up too many features that no-one needs.
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Solution #1: Speed start-up of OpenOffice
Written by grofaty the 19 Feb 09 at 13:12.
Speed up OpenOffice when starting. Probably not all features should be loaded when starting program. When some one needs some feature it could be loaded on demand.
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Solution #2: Help the development of a c/c++ alternatives with gtk+
Written by jeypeyy the 19 Feb 09 at 20:04.
OpenOffice is written with "Native Widget Framework" (http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/ooo-nwf.html ) and that might be a reason why it is so slow*. Also it integrates badly with gnome. If we helped an alternative written in c/c++ and with gtk+ it could be faster.

The developers could help developing alternatives like AbiWord and Gnumeric. There should also be an integration between those applications before Ubuntu decides to change.

*Note that I'm not sure if this really is the reason. If it's not, please leave a comment and vote this down.
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Solution #5: Use a (Optional) preloading system to quick-start Openoffice
Written by OpenNingia the 5 Mar 09 at 11:20.
For those people who needs faster openoffice, Ubuntu should provide a task that preloads some OOO's libraries or modules on system start, that will increase booting time but decrease OOO start time.

This behaviour should be optional.
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Solution #6: Transition bottlenecked portions of OpenOffice to C/C++
Written by Mishtal the 17 Mar 09 at 20:14.
There are ways to use C and C++ functions from interpreted languages like Java. The parts of OpenOffice that are the major bottlenecks could be transitioned to C/C++, or other compiled languages.
This gives us the benefit of keeping all the current features of OpenOffice, in addition to allowing new features to be added without significant changes in the implementation of these new features compared with the implementation of them on a non-transitioning OpenOffice
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Solution #7: Solution 1 but with support from Ubuntu
Written by Basem the 23 Mar 09 at 08:14.
Open Office is great, but i cant stop feeling its starting to lag behind in terms of features...ubuntu should start giving Sun some support.
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Solution #8: Use Abiword instead
Written by broomfighter the 27 Jul 09 at 22:34.
Abiword, while less featureful than OO, is light and fast. Plus, it's written natively in gtk, so it supports theming.
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Solution #9: Improve Open Office to load less files
Written by mikko.rantalainen the 7 Oct 10 at 08:15.
Starting the Open Office Writer 3.2 needs OS to load 1575 files. You can try this yourself:

strace -f -e trace=open oowriter 2>&1 | perl -npe 's/^[[]pid \d+[]] *//' | grep ^open | sort -u | wc -l

(Some of the files on that list are "file not found" but it still asks OS to try to load all those files.) A reasonable way to improve start up time would be to get it to load less files during startup. Whether this is implemented as Solution #1 (load files ondemand) or as some another solution (e.g. reimplement some functionality to have simpler implementation and not tons of code in a thousand separate files).

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.pdf to .doc, .odt file converter  
Written by slsolaris the 8 Mar 09 at 18:10. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. New
a lot of times i need to convert my .pdf files to .doc but i am not able to do that using openoffice, so i have to install koffice or wine and then "Pdf to Doc Converter" to be able to do it, but i do not like to install those things (it is a lot of work), we just need a simple plug-in in openoffice to do that.
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Solution #1: a plug-in for openoffice
Written by slsolaris the 8 Mar 09 at 18:10.
we should be able to convert .pdf to .odt or .doc type file, using openoffice.
this is a way to convert a PDF file to a format that OOo can edit
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Solution #2: PDF import library
Written by cheesehead the 9 Mar 09 at 01:04.
A library to import PDFs for editing would add value to many apps (OpenOffice, AbiWord, Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, etc.) instead of just one.
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Solution #3: "Convert to..." right click menu
Written by Xero Xenith the 11 Mar 09 at 19:14.
Right clicking it should also have a "Convert to..." menu, so you can convert between formats very easily.

This would apply to everything - e.g. right-clicking a .bmp, would reveal JPEG, GIF, PNG etc as options under "Convert to...".

See this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17201/

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use Evolution without email account  
Written by Lex the 12 Aug 08 at 15:52. Related project: Evolution Mail and Calendar. New
There is wizard on Evolution's first start, that forces users to enter all email details. There should be option to create basic account without email, because some people want to use just calendar and contact functionality.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12141
Written by Lex the 12 Aug 08 at 15:52.
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Add docx, xlsx, pptx, etc. support to OpenOffice and other Ubuntu Office suites  
Written by Redrazor39 the 6 May 08 at 00:50. Global category: Office. Implemented
title basically. We need to add this support. Apple already has it (but they sued or something) but we should still get it because lots of people are switching to Office Open XML (darn ms for using a name like ours for their cruddy formats) and we need to be able to use that or some people will not consider ubuntu as ahead in technology- they will consider it behind because of some silly office format.

Developer comments
As described in this feature list, OpenOffice 3 will have import filters for MS OpenXML files.
Unfortunately, due to a delay of the release of OpenOffice 3, it won't be the default version of Ubuntu 8.10.
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #8129
Written by Redrazor39 the 6 May 08 at 00:50.
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Archive manager : keep partial files  
Written by v1nce the 16 Oct 08 at 00:10. Related project: Archive Manager. New
Archive manager should propose to get as much of files as possible when dealing with incomplete/broken/multipart files.

I often run "unrar e -kb multipart.part1.rar" to "check" rar multiple part archives before downloading the whole thing
( -kb stands for keep broken)

I'd like to do the same in archive manager
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #14440
Written by v1nce the 16 Oct 08 at 00:10.
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