The chart reimplementation is still ongoing. In the following you find a list of recently fixed issues and an overview of working and non working areas to give you an idea of what you can expect from this developer snapshot.
You will get no system integration with this version at all.
Windows: Just exrtact the zip file to YOUDIRECTORY and start YOUDIRECTORY\openoffice_chart2_milestone8\program\soffice.exe
Linux: Just exrtact the tar.gz file to YOUDIRECTORY and start YOUDIRECTORY/openoffice_chart2_milestone8/program/soffice
Solaris: Just exrtact the tgz file to YOUDIRECTORY and start YOUDIRECTORY/openoffice_chart2_milestone8/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice
Chart Data Table (available with own data)
Axis labels and plot area size do respect font size and diagram size now (27354)
Autoscaling of Axis (Min, Max, automatic major step count dependent on Fontsize etc.)
Automatic Layout of Axis labels (27355)
known issue: The automatic 'break' feature is not implemented yet, I would like to know wether someone is missing this or all are more satisfied with the current implementation
Font sizes of axis are not loaded correctly (65997)
Sorting of x values in xy charts (46521)
Statusbar
Tooltips ( 27352 )
High Contrast mode ( 27356 )
known bug: Big charttype icons in wizard (69120)
Font and Symbol sizes of data labels do not resize with diagram (note: you need to enable the toolbar button 'Scale Text') ( 29600 )
Export Meta Stream in XML for Charts to be able to detect written version
Cancel button in chart wizard does not work in writer (Issue 66176)
Loaded net charts now display the categories
Loading of donut charts differentiates between correct new files and wrong old files now (58457)
Excel Import (Stockcharts,Errorbars,Trendlines)
Property Dialogs for different chart elements
General tabpages: Line, Area, Transparency, Characters, Font Effects, Numbers
( Line Tabpage has an additional control group 'Icon' for series with symbols )
known bug: Font Preview shows wrong text (26572)
known bug: Gradient Property 'StepCount' does not work
known bug: Fillstyles are partly not applied to the correct side of objects (e.g. Bottom)
Chart specific tabpages:
Legend: Position page
Title: Alignment page
Axis: Scale page and Label page ( Scale and Numbers page only for y axis )
known bug: 'Axis at' proerty is broken (61970)
Series: Statistic page, Data Label page, Layout page and Options page ( potentially different for different charttypes)
Missing tabpage 'Transparency' for Symbols (26666)
Position and Size Dialog
Insert dialogs:
Insert Title
Insert Axis
Insert Grids
Insert Legend
Insert DataLabels
Known bug: Legend Symbols missing if symbol style is automatic
Known bug: Position of data point labels for stacked 3D column charts with negative values
Known bug: Percent values
Insert Statistic
Insert Special Character
known bug:Only one special character inserted
known bug: only offers 256 item set
3D View Dialog
Charttype Dialog
Wizard
known bug: 3D scheme should be selected at the beginning
known bug: prevent the in-between display of a default chart
known bug: Icon Colors need to be adapted
known bug: Performance
Data Ranges Dialog
known bug: Range Choose Button does not work
Chart Data Table (only available with own data)
Menu and Context-menu (all enabled entries except Cut, Copy, Paste)
known bug: some menu entries are wrongly disabled (e.g. print)- ignore them for now
Icons for menu entries
Load and Save of all own formats with all features to all formats with all features (5.2,6.0,7.0,8.0 Chart in Calc, in Writer, in Impress and Standalone(5.2 only) with own data or data from calc or writer table)
known bug: Loading of categories and series names with own data fails
known bug: crash with donut charts ( 63570 )
known bug: Loaded 3D Line chart: isn't stacked deep
known bug: Load 3D Lines with 2nd axis -> one series lost
known bug: Export and reload to 5.2 format: Line Chart
known bug: Export and reload to 5.2 format: Pie Chart
known bug: Export and reload to 5.2 format: 3D Charts
known bug: Export and reload to 5.2 format: 2nd axis chart in calc is reimported wrongly
known bug: Export and reload to 5.2 format: chart in writer from writer tables is reimported wrongly (charts completely empty)
known bug: Import of manually scaled percent charts has to cope with Fileformat Error in 8.0 and older Versions (see i59288 for 8.0)
known bug: Some old documents which are created by copying a chart from somewhere to somewhere have a bug in the fileformat and are empty when loaded with the new chart
Excel Import
known bug: Donutcharts
known bug: Combination charts - import, sace as ods and reload does not work
known bug: Manually positioned objects
Undo
Accessibility
Display of legend entries
known bug: Legend entries: Symbols missing if symbol style is automatic
Autoscaling of Axis (Min, Max, automatic major step count etc.)
Automatic Layout of Axis labels respecting font size and diagram size
known issue: The automatic 'break' feature is not yet implemented, I would like to know wether someone is missing this or all are more satisfied with the current implementation
Selection via mouse (please test the current state for usability)
Keyboard access
Pie and Donut segment dragging (2D and 3D)
known bug: the preview during dragging is slightly wrong positioned
Toolbar button: Rearrange chart
known issue: for 3D charts maybe lights should be reset to default also
Toolbar button: Auto scale text
Statusbar
Tooltips ( 27352 )
High Contrast mode ( 27356 )
known bug: Big charttype icons in wizard (69120)
Font and Symbol sizes of data labels do not resize with diagram (note you need to enable the toolbar button 'Scale Text') ( 29600 )
Export Meta Stream in XML for Charts to be able to detect written version
Sorting of x values in xy charts (see new checkbox in charttype dialog for XY charts)
Chart section under Tools/Options
Disabling/Enabling of Menu entries
Toolbar
Help Content
Display of Mousepointer
Performance
Selection Of Points in Line Charts
Pie Label Font Sizes
Drag and Drop of Data to chart
Data Point Symbol Sizes do not resize with Page
Chart updates after data changes in Calc or Writer (Issue 63944, ...)
Excel Export