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  KOffice 1.5 beta 1 Released
KDE Office Suite Posted by Inge Wallin on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @14:59
from the beaten-by-kde-release dept.
The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.5 beta 1, the first preview release for KOffice 1.5, scheduled for release this March. KOffice is an integrated office suite with more components than any other suite in existence. Never before has a new version of KOffice brought this many exciting new features including Kexi 1.0 and the first release of project management application KPlato. Read the full announcement and the changelog for more details or read on for the full article.

This release specifically introduces the following highlights:

  • OASIS OpenDocument as the Default File Format
    KOffice now uses OASIS OpenDocument as the default file format for the productivity applications KWord, KSpread, and KPresenter. In the final 1.5 release, the charting application KChart will also use OpenDocument as the default format.
  • Enhanced Accessibility for Users with Disabilities
    The decision of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts to base its future document format on open standards started a great debate with many different people and organization taking part. One major aspect is accessibility. KOffice now supports enhanced accessibility through mouseless operation and text-to-speech.
  • Start of a Unified Scripting Approach
    This version of KOffice features a start of a unified scripting solution called Kross. Kross provides cross-language support for scripting (thus its name) and at present supports Python and Ruby.
  • First Major Release of Kexi (1.0)
    KOffice 1.5 contains the much expected final 1.0 version of Kexi, a data management application which is the KOffice counterpart to MS Access or FileMaker. It is designed from the ground up as a standard KDE database application.
  • Project management application KPlato
    KOffice 1.5 is the first official release to include KPlato. KPlato is a project management application that lets the user control project schedules and resource use. It is included in KOffice 1.5 as a technology preview and full functionality is expected for version 2.0.

Of course, it also fixes countless bugs and introduces a lot of smaller new features.

Packages are available for Debian Sarge, Debian Sid, Kubuntu and SuSE.

Throughout the beta period, to make testing easier, the Klik developer team will provide up to date Klik packages for all of KOffice. Klik packages may be used without installation and run on multiple GNU/Linux platforms without disturbing the system's native package manager. See the KOffice Klik wiki page for details of the bundles and supported distributions.



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Madness?
by Jakob Petsovits on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @15:30
Man, the dot is going frenzy. Which drugs are those marketing people on to produce four (and counting) news articles in such a short time? Ah well, I enjoy it :)
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Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Patcito on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @15:52
Will Koffice2 use Qt4?
What are Kexi advantages/disadvantages over MS Access or FileMake?
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KDE/Koffice-Native DB frontend was long overdue.
by Daniel "Suslik" D. on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @16:37
KDE/Koffice-Native DB frontend was long overdue. I am eternally greatful to the devs for going this direction. Especially, for making SQLite accessible to My/PostgreSQL-dim-wits like me.
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But has the word processor improved?
by John Fabiani on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @16:47
I just finished reading an article where Kword was rated only 3/10.
John
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Klik
by ac on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @16:51
When I try to install the klik client using

wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh

it asks me for the root password. Why is that?
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ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by fast_rizwaan on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @21:04
Start KWord or KSpread or Kpresenter (any koffice app), The "Recent Document" and "Create New Document" interface is *very confusing*.

I feel that KOffice applications should start with a default BLANK document (kword = blank document, kspread = blank sheet etc.) which could make things faster.

The "Open/Recent document/creat new" integrated interface is very confusing. Icons look terrible.

it is the start (first appearance) of koffice applications which are not user-friendly and aesthetically good. I'm perplexed with where to click? There are no guiding factor.

Sorry to complain but please take users' survey in the "New document" interface, which I believe could be improved with Some Nice icons and colors, and RichText (bold, italic, underline).

Apart from that KOffice have matured quite a bit. Opendocuments work like charm :)
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KOffice rocks!
by birdy on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @00:20
KOffice rocks! The koffice-guys did a great job. KOffice is gaining momentum at an incredible pace. Since 1.2 it's my office-package of choice. And it's getting better and better with every release. Keep on focusing on your benefits - fast, easy to use
Having "full" OpenDocument support will be so cool to use. KPlato may be the first usable free project-planing tool for Unix. Krita is currently replacing gimp more and more (for me).
I can't wait to try the new version...
Thanks a lot for your hard work!
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Screenshots of Kexi 1.0 beta 1
by Jaroslaw Staniek on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @01:50
http://kexi-project.org/screenshots.html
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Live CD?
by aranea on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:38
Is there one?
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Import/Export filters
by Ahmed Kamal on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:59
First of all, a million thanks to all koffice devs. It's stuff like this, that really help Desktop linux become a reality. I can finally drop the turtle that it OOo :)

One thing that I doubt, is whether Koffice uses the *same* import/export filters for the shitty MS document formats as OOo ?
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Kexi + Scripting!!!
by Cookiem on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @14:38
This is simply amazing! Better doc`s and small companies can use it already.

Thanks to all KOffice developers!
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kchart is still messed up
by MamiyaOtaru on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @15:12
kchart forces you to do some really strange things to display a pie chart. I keep wondering if it will ever change.. have a look at the image:
http://img494.imageshack.us/my.php?image=piechartmess2ev.png

Seems to be getting worse, I don't remember having to leave a blank row before.
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Kubunutu KWord Broken
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Saturday 04/Feb/2006, @17:31
Any word on when there will be a fixed Kubuntu package for KWord?

(It was compiled with some visual debugging features enabled, which is really neat to look at, but kind of makes it less useful).
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