On Monday 21 November 2011 09:26:04 pm Darrell Anderson wrote:
This past summer there was a discussion about
deprecating KOffice. Fortunately this plan was abandoned. KOffice includes the following
apps:
KWord: Word Processing
KSpread: Spreadsheets
KPresenter: Slide Presentations
Karbon14: Scalable Graphics Drawing
KPlato: Project Management
Kexi: Database Creator
Kugar: Database Report Generator
KChart: Chart and Graph Creator
Kivio: Flowchart and Diagram Editing
Chalk: Painting and Image Editing
KFormula: Formula Editor
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.
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.
I seem to recall once upon a time the developers for one of the distros doing this, but
my memory gets fuzzy these days. :)
Is separate packages feasible and doable?
Every distro I've used made KOffice in separate packages. Also, if you look on the
page for downloading the source code, you'll see it separated under
"applications/koffice".
Awhile back during my initial switch to Linux, I remember it having poor support for MS
Office. Also, I don't know if it can use more recent versions of ODF (there were a
couple newer revisions to the ODF spec added to OOo/LO). The 3rd complaint is that when I
used it awhile back, I don't remember seeing a way to switch it to a interface similar
to OOo/LO. Whilst I'm sure people like the simple wizard that it uses, I personally
don't. This would be a definite feature request :-)
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Kristopher Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
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