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  OpenOffice.org 1.1.3-kde
KDE Office Suite Posted by Jan Holesovsky on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @07:29
from the one-bugfix-every-day dept.
OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 with KDE integration is now available for download. It also features a lot of other improvements over the stock OOo (including the GNOME integration bits; but do not be afraid, it does not link against Gtk+ in KDE, and vice versa), because it is built from the ooo-build codebase.

Download: Installation set for Linux i386 (~80MB).

Features:

  • The current stable version of OpenOffice.org with many ooo-build patches and improvements
  • KDE Native Widget Framework
  • KDE (Crystal) icons
  • KDE file dialog (Open, Save As)
  • KDE splash screen by Dariusz Arciszewski
  • Gtk+ NWF and file dialog when executed in Gnome
Known problems:
  • You need libstartup-notification installed, otherwise it fails to run with "no suitable windowing system found, exiting."
  • The KDE file dialog seems to hang OOo on Fedora Core 3 when it has Preview on (F11 in the dialog), but most probably it is a Fedora bug (treats unrecognized file types as sound).
  • The new systems that build their packages from ooo-build (e.g. SUSE 9.2) do not need this package; check whether you have the KDE file dialog in your OOo before installing.

The project's homepage http://kde.openoffice.org is a bit outdated at the moment, but the work still continues. The main concern is OOo 2.0 now, see the ooo-build ChangeLog.

Help of an artist is needed for OOo 2.0: It contains a lot of new icons, the default ones are not acceptable for modern KDE desktop. Please drop me a mail if you are able (and willing) to draw some of them. :-)



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wow!
by ac on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @08:07
Congratulations, Jan. I had no idea you could build OOo to support both KDE and GNOME at the same time! Does it use GNOME icons under GNOME and KDE icons under KDE too?

Is this what Novell Linux Desktop uses?
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No download address?
by Görkem Įetin on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @08:26
The mirrors do not seem to sync, yet. Is there an address we can d/l OOo_1.1.3-kde_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz ?
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RPMs
by John SUSE Freak on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @10:12
"The new systems that build their packages from ooo-build (e.g. SUSE 9.2) do not need this package; check whether you have the KDE file dialog in your OOo before installing."

If SUSE packaged it, why not make those RPMs available at
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/packages/ooffice/
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Building from source
by George Staikos on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @10:20
Where are the latest instructions for building this from source? The kde.openoffice.org page seems to be outdated. It was giving me 1.1.1.
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localization
by Michael on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @11:39
What about localization? Can I use this package with German menues?
When will OOo start to use some modular translation method like KDE does since its beginning...?!
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OpenOffice Ximian
by Davide Ferrari on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @13:27
I'm running OpenOffice Ximian 1.3.6 built with KDE supports under Gentoo..is your project related to the one I'm talking about? They seems to do the same thing, so I definetely think so, but you never can tell...:)
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2.0
by gerd on Friday 26/Nov/2004, @15:23
I use OO 2.0 alpha version m62
It is very usable and stable and a huge advantage over 1.1.3

1.1 was lala

2.0 will rock

only the Icons look bad but kdefied ... nothing can stop us now...
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bug ?
by Alexandre on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @01:08
it does not put carecteres as: á ā ã â ä.
these are used characters in the Portuguese language.
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Mac support
by Arend jr. on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @04:45
Just a funny brainwave, but as Qt is available for the Mac as well, could this ease an OpenOffice.org port for the Mac that doesn't suck like the X11-version does?
Does anybody know whether that's planned for the 2.0 version or something?
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Fedora Core 3
by Anonymous on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @06:25
> The KDE file dialog seems to hang OOo on Fedora Core 3 when it has Preview on (F11 in the dialog), but most probably it is a Fedora bug (treats unrecognized file types as sound).

The same bug happens here with Fedora's openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm package and selecting eg OOo file types. Must be a messed up KDE packages.
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Screenshots????
by KDE Fan on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @08:14
Has anyone already made a series of *good*, *meaningful* screenshots of this killer thingie?

Could these be made available publicly? So that we can point the press and all interested parties to them?

That breakthrough is really, really beautiful. But marketing-wise, KDE sucks. Again.
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KDE (Crystal) icons
by James Richard Tyrer on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @10:57
Does that mean that the icons are not installed as themeable?

I note here that the FreeDeskTop.org icon theme specifications requires that all applications support, in addition to any other icon themes that they support, the fall back icon theme HiColor.

This is not just a OOo-KDE issue, it is a problem with many KDE applications.

Despite clear instructions:

http://developer.kde.org/~larrosa/iconthemes.html

"The main point here is that you _must_ install icons to hicolor, and then you can _optionally_ install icons to other icon themes (kdeclassic, ikons, locolor, crystalsvg, etc.)."

many KDE applications do not have the required HiColor icons. This appears to be, at least in part, do to a misunderstanding about the exact meaning of "default" icon theme. Crystal is the current "default" icon theme but it is not the fall back icon theme and it must not be treated as though it is the only or standard (unthemed) icon theme.

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JRT
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WIll it hurt gnome?
by Abel on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @12:29
So if i compile and install this onto my gnome 2.8 ubuntu system, it won't hurt it, will it? and will it work right?
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Other window managers
by Alex on Sunday 28/Nov/2004, @03:55
I really like the KDE look of OpenOffice.org, but it looks really bad in other window managers.
What do I do to enable OO.org's KDE mode under other window managers (e.g. Window Maker)?
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OOo ... KDE?
by J. E. Lang on Sunday 28/Nov/2004, @19:11
Pardon my ignorance. I've been using OOo for a couple of years at least having started on a Windows platform and moved to Linux (SuSE) with KDE within the past nine months.

What is meant by this talk about KDEizing OOo?
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Mr.
by Rôney Eduardo O. Santos on Monday 29/Nov/2004, @06:11
Could someone give an overview about the status of the project and the current state, about icon theming, gnome/kde integration in the same build, etc. (once kde.openoffice.org is outdated)?!
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Looks cool and all in the screenshots...
by MIV on Monday 29/Nov/2004, @08:31
...but how do you compile without pam!??!

I don't have pam and don't want it. I applied the patch to allow compilation without pam (for OOo 1.1.2, I believe) and it gets past the part where it was dying on pam. But now it's giving me a bunch of lip about 093-norwegian-translation.diff patch failing.
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1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ?
by Jeff Cann on Tuesday 30/Nov/2004, @07:52
The installer looks fine and the programs, such as swriter open and look great. It's just when I try to File | Open or <CTRL>+O, the dialog *never* appears. Other dialogs like File | Print do seem to work.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Jeff
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Debian
by Qerub on Wednesday 08/Dec/2004, @06:11
Users of Debian can do
apt-get install openoffice.org-kde
if experimental is in /etc/apt/sources.list
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no suitable windowing system found, exiting
by Christoph Schütz on Sunday 19/Dec/2004, @14:38
Hello,
the installation of OOo-kde-1.1.3 fails with the following message:

no suitable windowing system found, exiting

I work with SuSe 9.1 and kde3.2.3. The SuSe version of OOo-kde-1.1.1works fine
and OOo-1.1.3 works as well.
I like the kde version, so I would be very pleased, if someone can help me.

Thanks Christoph
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1.1.4?
by yoyo on Tuesday 22/Feb/2005, @10:31
where is one for 1.1.4? a binary.
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