19 Jun
2011
19 Jun
'11
9:13 p.m.
On Monday 20 June 2011 00:28:45 Timothy Pearson
wrote:
Basically there is no other office suite that is so closely integrated
with KDE/Trinity.
Aside spreadsheet and word processor KOffice includes graphical apps such
as Krita,
Kivio etc to which Open Office has no alternatives (or do you suggest
using GIMP?).
OK, this is a valid point. I wish you had made it to our meeting; by
bringing this up you probably would have killed off the deprecation
suggestion very quickly.
This is a
very sad news that you are going to deprecate KOffice, a
major
part of KDE.
We can reconsider this at the next meeting. Can you please provide a
rationale for keeping koffice, why it is better than LibreOffice with
TDE
integration, who still uses it, etc.?
Removing KOffice is equal to removing a half of KDE apps. Seriously guys I
thought you hold vector on
improvement and expansion (i.e. adding more apps) rather than removing the
core KDE components.
See above. koffice is not half of all apps though.
If KOffice is removed then there is no reason why other apps should be
added to Trinity. KDE:KDE3 repository
currently has more than 420 KDE3 packages but adding them to Trinity would
have no reason
if KOffice is removed (as KOffice has better quality and better integrated
than most of them).
In certain areas. In others (kword and such) the quality is inferior.
Even more, if KOfiice is removed then there is no reason why other Trinity
components should
not be removed as well by the same logic (AmaroK, Kaffeine, even
Konqueror).
No. Some of the koffice components have direct and better replacements,
such as kword.
Concerning Open/Libre Office as you know it has only basic KDE3
integration which can
be removed any moment. Libre Office team for example is currently
discussing radical change
of the user interface which may lead to removal of Qt3 styles support.
LibreOffice is more than happy to accept TDE integration support.
As of now, consider koffice deprecation cancelled.
Tim