ICE 1.2 RC1 now available

Source code is available from http://ice.usq.edu.au/svn/ice/trunk/ (Revision 6843)
The binaries are available from http://ice.usq.edu.au/trac/browser/ice/downloads/latest/binaries

Main new features and improvements

Installation improvements

1. Functionality added to self update on demand.

2. Config editor made simpler:

   • repository configuration can be done using a URL for example:

     Start ICE then click on a configuration URL such as ICE sample content config

     http://localhost:8000/edit-config?
url=http://ice-sandbox.googlecode.com/svn/sample-content
&name=ice-sample

   • help added to the editor

   • ICE detects version of OpenOffice.org to use for the given operating system.

   • ~ (tilde) can be used to set the users home directory.

   • no need to restart ICE after saving changes.

Rendering improvements

Since ICE is now using Python performance has improved and the following improvements have been made:

1. Tables on list styles supported

2. table following a blockquote style supported

3. lists inside definition lists supported

4. tables in slides supported

5. the fault pre-formatted text not rendering return characters correctly resolved

6. non breaking spaces added to empty table cells as the CSS for this is not yet fully supported (this can be over written)

7. links to bookmark can be automatically turned into page references for Books

8. images are not resized if within 10% of the actual inserted image (this was implement to resolve OOo getting the image size wrong)

9. and more.

File manager improvements

1. Files ICE knows about are opened using the operating systems default editor.

2. ICE opens the directory if it doesn't know the file type.

Other changes

1. IMS manifest.xml file renamed to imsmanifest.xml for the zipped package export.

2. Files in the root media folder within a package are not added to the navigation (useful for multi media files like Breeze).

more infomation

Remaining main issues and features

1. Files are unable to be renamed if the status is added.

2. Ability to have documents to start on either an odd or even page with added to Books.