19 Jun
2011
19 Jun
'11
9:45 p.m.
On Monday 20 June 2011 01:38:41 Timothy Pearson wrote:
We were talking about KDE:KDE3 repository. As I said if KOffice removed
there is no reason to include any other KDE3 word processor in Trinity because all
of those apps are inferior.
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.
Clementine is a direct continuation of Amarok. And in any way, as I already said,
it can be similarly argued that OpenOffice does not have all features of KOffice.
About what sort of integration do you speak now?
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. 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.
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.
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.