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KOffice is great
by M on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @15:04
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KOffice is a really great set of apps. I like it much better than OpenOffice.
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What KOffice most needs...
by Jonathan Riddell on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @15:05
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Is a logo. There's no KOffice icon.
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Keep up!
by Strasky on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @15:45
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We really need KOffice! I'm all for making OpenOffice more KDE friendly and all, we need it badly as a short term solution. A great KOffice would be so much better though!
Thanks all developers and keep up the good work!
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I love kOffice
by Erich on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @16:56
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kOffice is a great set of applications. I use at least one every day. I especially love the memory footprint (or the lack thereof :) and the integration with the rest of my desktop environment (not integration in the way that MS Office integrates with Windows either). It achieves that elusive balance between not irritating the user with "features" (read: clippy) and maximum usability.
Keep it up, we really do need kOffice.
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Mail merge and KDE PIM?
by Tom on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @17:23
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Just a random thought I had whilst reading through... couldn't KWord be combined with KAddressbook for mail merge? It'd make sense... maybe it can already be done?
(a happy KWord user...)
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openo
by chris on Monday 05/Jul/2004, @17:28
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why are office programms moving so slowly forward ?
openoffice is slow in releasing updates so is koffice.
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Krita isn't awakening
by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @01:08
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It's wide awake! Since October we've added: loading gimp brushes, Wacom tablet support, a brush tool, pen tool, airbrush tool, clone tool, fill tool, line tool, ellipse tool, box tool, image rotation, scaling and transforming, CMYK and GrayA color models, brightness, contrast and colorize plugins, more composition operatators. Not to mention bugfixes, lots of work on the internals and developer documentation (http://koffice.kde.org/developer/krita) and lots of stuff I've already forgotten.
We're working on: better access to image data for plugins, selections, previews for dialogs, channel depth > 8 bit, core improvements like easier access to image data.
Finally, there's about half a dozen people regularly contributing to Krita's progress. With a bit of luck we'll have a first alpha done this autumn. And as soon as I figure out how to create them, I'll put up SuSE 9.1 RPM snapshots up for download.
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MS Windows version?
by Petr Balas on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @01:39
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What about Windows version?
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No, I haven't forgotten you, KOffice
by thomas on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @04:38
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I'm still checking out KOffice from time to time.
There's a big need for a lightweigt, easy to use word or spreadsheet app. I think it was a great move to switch to the oasis format. Would it be possible to get around hacking own MS Office import filters for KOffice by piping the MS Office file through OO.org and than simply opening the oo.org-oasis file?
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release
by Ben Meyer on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @06:33
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Does anyone else think the major reason why KOffice doesn't get as much notice as it deserves is because it has a different release schedule than KDE?
-Benjamin Meyer
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Look at What is in KOffice
by David on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @13:38
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KWord is pretty easy to use and KSpread is one of the most usable spreadsheet apps I've seen. Everything is just - there. I've seen someone who had never even seen KSpread before in their lives select some cells, click on Data and sort them as if they had done it for years. That never happened with Calc or Excel. Yes, I know KOffice still needs development and that some things in KWord, KSpread and the main applications make it a bit iffy to use full time but you can't knock what is currently there.
However, has anyone took a look at what is in it as a whole? There is Kivio (which I think is a killer app personally), Kugar for reporting and Kexi looks as if it is coming along nicely. Yes, I know some people criticize Kexi, mostly for the way it is developed, but functionally you can't argue with it.
When everyone is disappearing into hole of hype over open source software, KDE never ceases to amaze me in terms of the ordinary, mundane, sometimes boring, common sense functionality there is. Critically, it is the sort of boring stuff that everyone needs.
All it needs now is time, developers and perhaps a bit of investment :).
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I've been choosing KOffice for a long time
by Pupeno on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @22:05
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For a long time I've been choosing KOffice over OpenOffice... OpenOffice makes my computer seem 10 year old in term of speeds and the ui is too complex.
I think KOffice is a great set of apps, specially, KWord and KSpread (the two most used by me).
So, please, KOffice developers, go on developing, you are doing a great job!!!!
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Koffice rules
by hein on Wednesday 07/Jul/2004, @13:31
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When will KOffice switch to OpenOffice-Formats? this will make life a lot easier as the Openoffice transformation filter of Wordfiles can be used.
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Video Editing
by martin runde on Wednesday 07/Jul/2004, @13:33
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Is there something like video editing software for Linux/KDE?n Or a software that supports something like Flash?
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I was surprised by the review - it seemed unfair
by Gerry on Wednesday 07/Jul/2004, @16:25
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Kspread: I don't recognise the negatives you mention. I've got no idea what a pivot table is for (has anyone?) but for your intro I might have thought this was a troll... Similarly, on rehearsing timings I'm in government and I get to sit through a lot of presentations. I'm adapting Andrew Lang's comment on statistics "he used presentations as a drunk uses a lamp post - for support rather than illumination"
Generally I think charting from spreadsheets is p..s poor, particularly the difficulty of producing real y= f(x) type graphs
Personally, I think for complicated stuff stick to a database
KOffice: I was pleasantly surprised when I last opened an MS Word doc on my SUSE desktop: KOffice sprung into life and worked (though when I opened a complicated/long one it screwed- but I'm confident that given time things will improve). It is also getting quite good at editing pdf files - a useful and unmentioned feature. I don't think it generates contents pages and I remember a million years ago having a word processor thingy including dictionary (wordstar?) on one 3.5 inch disc (those were the days) and it generated indexes automatically - a nifty feature
Kvivio - whatever, don't use it, don't know what it's for
Krita - Kolourpaint seems to be moving along faster - perhaps there's room for combining?
Kugar (see above) spare me from generated reports
I particularly like the fact that KOffice follows totally the *nix philosophies (I always know where to find how to generate a pdf, it's in CUPS...)
I contribute by regularly paying for SUSE updates (or is that just KDE?) Not too sure about how to report bugs (never sure it isn't me...)
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