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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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Re: But has the word processor improved?
by Robert Knight on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @17:43

Do you have the URL of that article? Feedback from reviews can be very helpful for the developers*

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Re: But has the word processor improved?
by Jon Scobie on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @02:28

Not sure that this is the one that was referred to but there was an article in the UK magazine Linux Format which comaprd office suites (spreadsheets in particular) and kspread came out as the worst one. I'm not a big spreadhseet user so I couldn't really comment.

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Re: But has the word processor improved?
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @02:32

Yeah, we read that review... The reviewer sure had fun. Pity there were a couple of factual inaccuracies, and an even bigger pity that apparently kspread-kchart integration was broken on SuSE.

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Re: But has the word processor improved?
by superstoned on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @06:37

yeah, someone mentioned the article as well. wow, they where negative about Koffice... imho not really a fair comparison. kspread might not be better than OO.o calc, but its not like 2/10 vs 8/10 (more like 5/10 7/10). imho.

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Re: But has the word processor improved?
by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @22:14

KWord has improved a lot: there have been many stability fixes, usability fixes, lots of bugs closed, not to mention OpenDocument made the default native file format and the accessability improvements: http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.5beta1.php#kword. I doubt whether it would be enough for the reviewer, but we are very happy that KWord is actively maintained again. And my daughters are very happy because now they've got a word processor that runs on their laptops and lets them create their schoolpapers easily.

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