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Balancing feature race and stability
by Roger F on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @02:14

Look,

I commend the effort to add advanced functionality to Koffice.
But right now, Koffice is at a point where I -want- to use it but -cannot-.
Why?

Simply because it is too unstable and unreliable. You won't see me using Koffice before that is fixed, regardless of advanced new features. I suspect a lot of other people are of the same opinion...

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Re: Balancing feature race and stability
by Superstoned on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @04:05

Well, there are some very basic problems in Koffice right now, and hopefully these can be fixed by the Koffice 2 release. If they are, its very likely Koffice 2.0 (or 2.0.x) will be what you are looking for.

Many seem to think the Koffice guys just go for 2.0 because they want new new new lovely features. But it is also very much about a fundamental redesign to SOLVE some deep problems.

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Re: Balancing feature race and stability
by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @04:17

I hoped that it goes without saying that the stability and lack of features like tables and kerning are at the top of the list of things to do.
But I guess that the years of false promises by the software creators at large have skewed that perspective.
My fault for not expecting it. Sorry about that.

The creation of these two libraries move the development from several separate islands into one community with the positive effects that has with regards to peer reviews and code reuse (which means less code and thus less bugs).

Completely separate from this article, KOffice 2.0 will bring a new text engine for KWord to get rid of a lot of problems we had in previous versions. Including kerning and printing (wysiwyg).

This vision is not a list of features, its, well, a vision of the way we think it will look. We did not steal it, we are innovating. That does not mean that we don't care about stability and basic features.

Thanks for your feedback!

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Re: Balancing feature race and stability
by Piotr Gawrysiak on Wednesday 07/Jun/2006, @13:27

Yes, the same with me. Every time KOffice team releases bugfix release I install it and try to use, only to discover that with just casual use (editing some tables in KWord, embedding a formula etc. - usually not more than after 10 minutes :-) ) one of the apps (usually KWord - but not always) crashes. Ehhh... I can only hope that they would really do some QA on KOffice2 :-)

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Re: Balancing feature race and stability
by Thomas Zander on Thursday 08/Jun/2006, @04:55

Exactly like the subject states; tables are a balance where I honestly wanted to remove tables completely in the 1.5 series of releases since they were not up to snuff.
But removing stuff (even if it crashes for some people) is a big no-no, so we let it stay.

Needless to say we (and by that I mean I) really wanted to get it right, but for that we need some of the features that 2.0 will bring.
I expect tables to be so much improved in KOffice2 that you won't be able to stop using KWord even after a hour of playing ;)

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