KOffice 1.4 Released

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KOffice 1.4 Released

Posted by Raphael Langerhorst on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @10:41
from the next-generation-office-suite dept.
The KOffice team is pleased to announce the next version of the lightweight, integrated and complete office suite. With exciting highlights like two new components - Krita and Kexi - and support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format, the KOffice 1.4 release is a large step forward. Even a Live-CD featuring the latest release is available so you can try before actually installing anything. You can also take a look at screenshots at OSDir to get a first glance. Read the full announcement and the changelog for further details!

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Kubuntu Packages and Live CD
by Jonathan Riddell on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @11:22

Kubuntu's packages are on download.kde.org, we also have a Live CD with KOffice 1.4 (and KDE 3.4.1).

http://kubuntu.org/hoary-koffice-14.php

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Thank you!
by Anonymous on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @11:36

Donwloading now....

Great job everybody! go KDE! ;)

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OpenDocument
by Anonymous on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:08

Are these now the default file formats for KOffice? How much of the standard is supported? If I remember correctly, there need to be two independ implementations of the OASIS standard before it becomes real. OOo provides ones and KOffice the other. So, is the standard in effect now?

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Re: OpenDocument by Anonymous on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:38

So..
by bsander on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:48

How's Krita? Is it any good?

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Re: So.. by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:52

Re: So.. by Bart Coppens on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @15:03

Re: So.. by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:56

Re: So.. by Gerd on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @13:04
Re: So.. by A.C. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @07:56

Re: So.. by Boudewijn on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:21

Re: So.. by A.C. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @10:26

It's cool! by Jakob Petsovits on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:12

Re: It's cool! by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:26

Re: It's cool! by the orz on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @20:48

Re: It's cool! by Casper Boemann on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @01:31

Re: It's cool! by Jens Wiedemar on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:39

Re: It's cool! by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:50
Re: It's cool! by Morty on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:51
krita.png
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Re: It's cool! by Meneer Dik on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @01:15

Re: It's cool! by Macavity on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @04:03

Re: It's cool! by Boudewijn on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:29

Re: It's cool! by Macavity on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @09:13

Re: It's cool! by macavity on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @09:45
Re: It's cool! by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @10:59

Re: It's cool! by oliv on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @02:18

Re: It's cool! by Jakob Petsovits on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @07:14

s/ImageMagic//g
by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @13:37

Please if possible remove ImageMagick dependency from Krita.

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Re: s/ImageMagic//g by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @13:41

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by other ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:26

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @16:35

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by Asdex on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @22:48

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by cies breijs on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @23:11

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by ac on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:33

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by D. Rollings on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @12:27

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by ac on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @14:11

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by D. Rollings on Monday 27/Jun/2005, @06:35

Re: s/ImageMagic//g by Anonymous Gnome on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @11:14

Nice to see the Mandriva package.
by a.c. on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @13:55

I have to admit that I have been wanting to upgrade to kde 3.4.1, but no luck so far. Just out of curiousity, how is Suse looking these days?

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Re: Nice to see the Mandriva package. by Anonymous on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @01:25
Re: Nice to see the Mandriva package. by Anonymous on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @03:31
Re: Nice to see the Mandriva package. by MandrakeUser on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @04:42

Re: Nice to see the Mandriva package. by a.c. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @08:22

Krita still sucks...
by TIM.. on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:51

lots of usability issues plus you need a resolution bigger than the mostly standar 1024*768.

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Re: Krita still sucks... by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:57

Re: Krita still sucks... by TIM.. on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @14:58

Re: Krita still sucks... by other ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @15:05
Re: Krita still sucks... by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @15:24

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @15:01
Re: Krita still sucks... by ac on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @15:05
Re: Krita still sucks... by fast_rizwaan on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @16:30

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @22:16

Re: Krita still sucks... by Illissius on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @01:48

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:15

Re: Krita still sucks... by Illissius on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @10:23

Re: Krita still sucks... by TIM.. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @07:14

Re: Krita still sucks... by other ac on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @07:18

Re: Krita still sucks... by Fab on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @08:28
Re: Krita still sucks... by ExKritaUser on Saturday 29/Mar/2008, @09:45

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn Rempt on Saturday 29/Mar/2008, @16:31

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:37

Re: Krita still sucks... by TIM.. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @11:30

Re: Krita still sucks... by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @12:24

Re: Krita still sucks... by TIM.. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @14:06

Re: Krita still sucks... by Brandybuck on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @10:22

Unable to compile with gcc4
by younker on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @18:38

the codes has some problem when built with gcc-4.0.1-rc2,
need do some forward declaration.

one is kexilabel, and the other is AiParser to AIParase.

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Re: Unable to compile with gcc4 by fast_rizwaan on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @21:13

Re: Unable to compile with gcc4 by Anior on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @04:02
Re: Unable to compile with gcc4 by superstoned on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @06:19

Krita is _awesome_
by stephan on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @01:10

Krita actually has the potential to become better than the venerable photoshop, and that is the first time for a free software image manipulation program. Gimp usability still remains poor after _years_ of criticism and development, and it is not even well integrated into gnome. Krita integrates into KDE perfectly and now gets all the power from the underlying KIO etc. subsystems and is also very usable. Veeery good work!

Now I'm going to try out Kexi... :-)

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One more feature to add, IMHO
by aurelius_barzano on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @00:36

After educating myself on KOffice a bit (being locked in Windows world for now makes it hard to test) and having a tryst with my friend's Adobe Creative Suite 2 (bought recently for a web design studio) I'd say there is one thing KOffice would benefit from, and I guess it wouldn't be too hard to implement:

A honest summary view.

I fell for Adobe Bridge, honest. IMHO, that's one of the things that Adobe did right (overbloat in PS isn't one of them, personally I prefer 7.0, heck, even 5.5 to CS anyday) and it would be one more killer thing that would make KOffice stand out. What would it look like? I'd say cloning Kontact summary first would be a good start, only this time it would show things like recent documents, recent projects, maybe would also be tied to a file browser via Konq KPart AND would be the first thing user would see after starting KOffice in its entirety. Add to it the possibility of customizing the summary panels (like views in 3D Studio, for instance:
______________________
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|________|_____________|

or
______________________
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|___________|__________|
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|___________|__________|

(sorry for craptastic ASCII art, and it's mangled anyway - just add spaces), where each panel would show, for instance, recent files, recent projects, todos, file browser etc., et. al. Just like Kontact, most important things at a glance.

So, what would you people think?

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Re: One more feature to add, IMHO by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @01:00

Re: One more feature to add, IMHO by aurelius_barzano on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @13:06

Re: One more feature to add, IMHO by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @01:39

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