On Tuesday 22 November 2011 03:26:04 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> If this suite is advertised as a personal office suite rather than
> professional the apps remain viable for many Trinity users. The tight
> integration with TDE is a bonus too.

absolutely, yes.
I like kword and kspread well, ligthtweight, fast, well integrated,
does (nearly) every thing I need, so far.
some quirks though (inconsistent font sizes, e.g.).
(I also tried koffice2.x several times, before it became calligra, and it was
a complete mess, unusable, data loss etc.).
OO, however, is a monster and just plain overkill, I just use it rarely when I
have to look at some M$-office documents sent from someone...

> I hope KOffice is not removed from the Trinity line, but I am wondering how
> much work is involved to package the apps separately. Likely there would
> need to be a koffice-base package that contains all the common libraries,
> headers, etc.

hm, there ARE separate packages, e.g. kspread:

> aptitude show kspread-trinity

Paket: kspread-trinity
Neu: ja
Zustand: Installiert
Automatisch installiert: ja
Version: 4:3.5.13-0debian9+r1260139+pr4~squeeze
Priorität: optional
Bereich: kde
Verwalter: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>
Unkomprimierte Größe: 8.303 k
Hängt ab von: kdelibs4c2a-trinity (>= 4:3.5.8-1), kexi-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13),
koffice-libs-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libgcc1 (>=
              1:4.1.1), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4),
libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8-d), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), libtqtinterface,
              libx11-6, libxext6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), koffice-libs-trinity
(< 4:3.5.14)
Empfiehlt: khelpcenter-trinity | koffice-trinity-doc-html (=
4:3.5.13-0debian9+r1260139+pr4~squeeze)
Beschreibung: a spreadsheet for the KDE Office Suite [Trinity]
 KSpread is a powerful spreadsheet application.  It is scriptable and provides
both table-oriented sheets and support for complex mathematical formulae
 and statistics.

 This package is part of the KDE Office Suite.
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