Learn more about Calligra Third Snapshot Release for july 2011
The Calligra Application Suite team is releasing the third step
towards its first full release: the third snapshot release. Following
hot on the heels of last month’s snapshot, this release contains
improvements everywhere, and after all the work on the engine, now the
applications themselves are getting tender loving care as well.
The text layout engine once again received a lot of attentions, with many small layout issues being fixed, as well as some major performance issues. The table-of-contents feature now can be accessed from the gui. For Tables, the rendering of the row and column headers has been improved, while Krita has again seen many commits, adding for instance configurable sliders for opacity, size and flow. Stage has a brand-new slide sorter that’s a joy to work with.
But not all the coolness the Calligra team is hacking is appearing already in this snapshot release. With over a hundred feature branches, the developers are taking to the git-based workflow where a feature is perfected in a branch and then merged like wasps take to jam. Many of these features will also land in time for the first Calligra release later this year.
The text layout engine once again received a lot of attentions, with many small layout issues being fixed, as well as some major performance issues. The table-of-contents feature now can be accessed from the gui. For Tables, the rendering of the row and column headers has been improved, while Krita has again seen many commits, adding for instance configurable sliders for opacity, size and flow. Stage has a brand-new slide sorter that’s a joy to work with.
But not all the coolness the Calligra team is hacking is appearing already in this snapshot release. With over a hundred feature branches, the developers are taking to the git-based workflow where a feature is perfected in a branch and then merged like wasps take to jam. Many of these features will also land in time for the first Calligra release later this year.