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  KOffice 1.6 RC 1 Released
KDE Office Suite Posted by Inge Wallin on Wednesday 27/Sep/2006, @14:39
from the soon-soon-soon dept.
In the middle of the yearly KDE conference aKademy, the KOffice team has released the first release candidate of version 1.6. This release follows the earlier beta according to the schedule.

This version does not contain any new features, but comprises of a number of bug fixes that were the result of user comments made about the beta 1 version. The team hopes to continue its great dialogue with the users, and is looking forward to the final release on October 15th.

As usual, you are invited to test it in depth and to report any bugs via the KDE bug website.

For more information, see the download and release notes page, the announcement and the complete list of changes.



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Krita
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 27/Sep/2006, @17:42
The only Koffice apps I'm curently using is Krita. In 1.5 it crashed often, but now, even in the beta, it's rock stable and it's starting to get the features I need to use in the place of Gimp.
But it will probally roick on KDE4, because current qt miss a lot of features needed, and will bring others that will make it even simple to use draw functions. So, the future is bright for Krita, I hope the other Koffice apps get the same attention level soon.
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OT: switch user?
by KDE User on Wednesday 27/Sep/2006, @20:35
Hi, I google for switch user in KDE. I find http://docs.kde.org/userguide/switching-sessions.html

Doc tells me I can do it. OK. I see Switch User in menu but when I go there only option is grayed out. How do I enable it please? I look at document above and don't see.

Thank You.
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  • Re: OT: switch user?
    by Cyrille Berger on Wednesday 27/Sep/2006, @23:11
    This is hardly the pace for such questions: I invite you to use the appropriate place: http://www.kde-forum.org/. Thank you :)
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    • Re: OT: switch user?
      by ac on Thursday 28/Sep/2006, @19:30
      I have the same problem on Mandrake. :(
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      • Re: OT: switch user?
        by Larter on Saturday 30/Sep/2006, @17:06
        KDE is Open Source. If you don't like it, please submit a patch. Don't whine like a luser.
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        • Re: OT: switch user?
          by cm on Saturday 30/Sep/2006, @18:30
          Go away, troll.
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Klik
by Klik fan on Thursday 28/Sep/2006, @11:42
Would it be possible to provide Klik packages of the release candidate? Klik was made for this kind of software testing, and it's just awesome!
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  • Re: Klik
    by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 28/Sep/2006, @12:44
    It should be easy enough to do -- the recipe should still be available from 1.5, and if Isaac Clerencia makes Debian binaries, kliks would almost automatically follow. However, Isaac is pretty busy right now, so I think there are no debs, and someone must update the klik recipe and tell the KOffice release dude.

    It just needs a little more manpower than we've got right now...
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    • Re: Klik
      by Klik fan on Thursday 28/Sep/2006, @16:32
      Boudewijn, thank you for your reply. Can you say a little more about what it takes to create a Klik package? With all the great Debian users around, maybe someone will get involved (keeping fingers crossed...)
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      • Re: Klik
        by Boudewijn Rempt on Friday 29/Sep/2006, @01:00
        Probono is the official recipe maintainer -- if you contact him http://koffice.klik.atekon.de/recipe/ and offer help with creating a recipe for koffice 1.6 beta's, I've no doubt that business will result.
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And OpenDocument compatibility?
by Alberto on Friday 29/Sep/2006, @01:02
I've read the changelog, and I haven't seen anything about OD compatibility. I have tried koffice 1.5.2 a bit, and there are errors opening documents created with OO.org. I'd love to see koffice doing what I need to do with OO.org, and yes, I'll check what is needed to submit bugs about this.
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  • Re: And OpenDocument compatibility?
    by Boudewijn Rempt on Friday 29/Sep/2006, @01:51
    And vice-versa. Neither OO nor KOffice implements ODF completely correctly, or even completely. In 1.6, there are a few ODF-related bug-fixes, but the main effort for 1.6 has been expended on features for Krita and Kexi, while the maintainers of the other applications have been busy porting KOffice to KDE4 and Qt4.

    The porting is now done, more or less, and a lot of effort is now going into making the flake vision described in http://dot.kde.org/1149518002/. It looks like we're going to have an ODF hackathon early 2007 -- we'll probably do a sponsorship drive for that some time soon.
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  • Re: And OpenDocument compatibility?
    by Alfredo Beaumont on Friday 29/Sep/2006, @02:10
    This changelog contains only changes from 1.6beta, so if you want to look at new features you should take a look at 1.6beta changelog: http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.6beta1.php

    You can see improved OpenDocument support in KSpread and KFormula.
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    • Re: And OpenDocument compatibility?
      by Inge Wallin on Friday 29/Sep/2006, @07:53
      And KChart... Working on that as we speak in the hacker labs at aKademy.
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Thanks
by Kollum on Friday 06/Oct/2006, @13:05
I just wanted to thank every KDE dev, and especialy Krita ones who make a exelent work.

For the other apps, I'm looking forward to them having full support of ODF.
I agree to say that Koffice is becoming realy nice:
I'm now using the 1.6 beta, and it is more sable, bug free, and featured than the 1.5 realise, sounds good for the final 1.6 !

Thanks again
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  • Re: Thanks
    by Boudewijn Rempt on Friday 06/Oct/2006, @14:07
    And, thank you! for taking the effort to tell us that you like our work -- that really helps with the motivation and all that.
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