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  KOffice 1.6 Beta 1 Released
KDE Office Suite Posted by Inge Wallin on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @09:36
from the We're-getting-there dept.
KOffice, the KDE office suite, today released version 1.6 beta1. This release incorporates a number of new features, mainly from the Google Summer of Code projects, as well as a great number of bug fixes. It also signals the start of the feature freeze that always preceeds a release of a major new version, thus giving the developers exactly a month to fix outstanding bugs. We urge everybody that is interested in KOffice to install and test this version to make sure that the final 1.6 has a high quality. To see more details, you can look in the announcement or the full changelog.

KOffice 1.6 is mainly a feature release for the fastest developing components Kexi and Krita, but also incorporates some some new features and bugfixes in all the other components. You can look at the article about the release of KOffice 1.6 Alpha to see some of them. The new features in the beta are mainly that some of the projects from the Google Summer of Code were integrated.

The projects that were integrated into KOffice 1.6 were:

  • Emanuele Tamponi: A bezier curve tool with stroking using brushes and a new outline selection tool for Krita.
  • Alfredo Beaumont: Major improvements to OpenDocument support for KFormula.

The other SoC projects were integrated into KOffice 2.0, which is being developed in parallel with 1.6 and will be released later in 2007.

Other noteworthy but smaller things in 1.6 Beta1 are tools for perspective drawing in Krita, new filters in Krita, great speed improvements in KSpread, Kugar Designer works again and countless improvements in Kexi. To see some of them, look at Jaroslaw Stanieks blog

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Bug reports
by Jaroslaw Staniek on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @10:21
Of course testers are encouraged to report issues to bugs.kde.org.
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Hey,
by ale on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @12:59
Koffice is really getting interesting now.
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packages
by shiny on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @15:06
Does anybody know when (if ever) are kubuntu packages going to ship?
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  • Re: packages
    by anononymour on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @16:12
    Already up since yesterday I think.

    http://kubuntu.org/announcements/koffice-16beta1.php
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help
by ac on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @18:04
I don't even know where to start to install this on Mandriva. Please help. :(
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  • Re: help
    by Vlad on Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @19:13
    If Mandriva doesn't have pre-packaged binaries (rpm's), then you'll have to build it straight from the source code. Google might help, and asking around on the mandriva irc/forums may also help. goodluck.
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  • Re: help
    by Peter on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @06:12
    If you are running Cooker, type into a root console:

    ]# urpmi koffice --auto --no-verify-rpm

    If you are running an older release you should compile yourself or keep running updates until its released. Its best to wait for Mandriva rpm releases anyhow so you dont go accidentally breaking other things at the same time.
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Kword tables?
by Scott on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @01:10
Is there going to be some major work on Kword's table support? That is one think that I really think should be worked on for the next release...
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  • Re: Kword tables?
    by Inge Wallin on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @01:41
    Yes, version 2.0 will contain a totally new implementation of tables. 1.6 does not have any new stuff in KWord, only some bugfixes.
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    • Re: Kword tables?
      by Scott on Thursday 14/Sep/2006, @16:48
      Phew... That's one think I find really annoying. I'm really glad it's goign to be majorly worked on/fixed in the 2.0 release...
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  • Re: Kword tables?
    by Carsten Niehaus on Wednesday 13/Sep/2006, @03:23
    That and linenumbers and KBibTex-integration :)
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Klil
by ac on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @07:48
Are there going to be "Klik" packages of this release? I think Klik is the fastest and easiest way to temporarily install software without messing up my installation.
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  • Re: Klil
    by Bobby on Thursday 14/Sep/2006, @08:47
    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE someone get a klik package for Koffice 1.6b... I would love to help test the software and do bug fixes, and klik is BY FAR the easiest way to do that.

    Bobby
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From the changelgo
by Alan on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @19:51
I was hoping there might be some Karbon changes list in the changelog but sadly not but I did notice something I hope can be added to all of Koffice:

KPresenter
* kpresenter can be built stand-alone


What are the chances of this being done for all the Koffice applications?
(Alternatively what level of difficulty would it be to do the same for Karbon, maybe I'd try doing it as a last resort?)
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  • Re: From the changelog
    by Inge Wallin on Monday 11/Sep/2006, @23:03
    Hmm, generally it's not that difficult to build the applications standalone. You need the libs, so after configure, do:

    cd lib
    make install

    then if you just want one application, go into its directory and build it, like:

    cd ../kspread (say)
    make install

    If you also want the import/export filters, then you have to build them too:

    cd ../filters/kspread
    make install

    And that's it. Note, that for kchart, you also need to make install in interfaces/, and you might need to go into servicetypes/ and make install to get mime types installed.
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    • Re: From the changelog
      by Bart Coppens on Tuesday 12/Sep/2006, @14:20
      You might also need to make install in servicetypes/ and mimetypes/ other than libs/ as a general dependency.
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  • Re: From the changelgo
    by Cyrille Berger on Tuesday 12/Sep/2006, @01:42
    Most koffice applications are independent, you can use the environnement variable DO_NOT_COMPILE="kword kspread k..." before calling the configure script to select applications you don't want to build. And there is nothing new in karbon in 1.6, because the authors are doing a massive rewrite of the application for 2.0.
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Krita~
by Random dude on Wednesday 13/Sep/2006, @20:25
Krita is really looking very promising.
This perspective grid is very interesting and I can think of several uses for it quickly.
Now what Krita needs to make it a real killer app is implementing better "natural drawing" tools (something like openCanvas, mostly proper watercolors and a decent pencil simulation) and it'll be my drawing tool of choice without a second thought.
Go for it, you sure are improving!
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  • Re: Krita~
    by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 14/Sep/2006, @00:57
    I don't know OpenCanvas, but natural drawing tools are exactly what I want to work on. Unfortunately, you need a whole infrastructure setup before you can do that sort of thing. We're getting there, though.
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    • Re: Krita~
      by Cyrille Berger on Thursday 14/Sep/2006, @03:17
      OpenCanvas is a very nice painting application (mostly with a japanes community from what I have gather), with a quiet unique feature, you can record the strokes and drawing operation, and then replay them on a different computer. But, unfortunately there is no demo of it :'(
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      • Re: Krita~
        by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 14/Sep/2006, @05:43
        Er, I just found a trial version of it. Doesn't run under wine, though.
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        • Re: Krita~
          by (same) Random dude on Saturday 16/Sep/2006, @08:48
          Uh, got late to reply to this...ahem.
          Well, I was able to make it run in wine, sort of using the defaults in the lastest version. It wouldn't recognize pressure pressure from tablets(for that I use vmware player) but it's enough to check out or watch "replays".
          An vmware setting is recommended, it runs perfectly and can use the tablet's pressure.
          Best regards Mr.Rempt.
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Kword sheet spaces
by Fri13 on Friday 15/Sep/2006, @00:09
I was hoping that Kword could now save Document Structure list size right, after closing Kword. And Kword paper sheets could have space between them, like OpenOffice has.

Well... Still very nice beta :-)
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