On Monday 20 June 2011 01:13:49 Timothy Pearson wrote:
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.
I think there is no other general-purpose word processor for KDE3 other than KWord. It is unique in its class. I have Scribus, Lyx, TexMaker, PDF Editor in KDE:KDE3 but they all implement different functionality and less closely integrated with KDE.
This is completely subjective. I would argue that OpenOffice.org is unmatched for the way it blends in to TDE and reads/writes all the major document formats nearly flawlessly.
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.
This is completely subjective. One can argue that Amarok 1.4 has better replacements Amarok 2 and Clementine. It can be argued that Konqueror can be replaced with Rekonq and Dolphin etc.
No, because in those cases the feature set did not include features that were present in the original applications.
It is also quite arguable whether say OOo Calc is better than KSpread: opening a spreadsheet in Calc can take minutes while in KSpread only one or two seconds.
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.
Re-implementing Qt3 support after the change may require huge effort while LibreOffice team is not commited to do it themselves. Do you feel capable to re-implement interface integration yourselves even if your patches will be happily accepted?
Actually, yes! I have done it before with other apps and to be honest it is not difficult at all.
Tim