KOffice 2 Alpha 6 Improves OpenDocument Support

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KOffice 2 Alpha 6 Improves OpenDocument Support

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @03:32
from the feeling-snappy dept.
KOffice 2 Alpha 6 has been released. This preview release improves the OpenDocument infrastructure, adds snap guidelines to several applications and sees major improvements in Krita, Karbon & KPlato. See the changelog for more details. Download it from source or get the packages for Kubuntu or openSUSE.

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Nice
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @05:47

I did not tested koffice2 yet, but I will install kubuntu packages this night right during the lunar eclipse :)
I want to see what is new in krita, it is a nice image editor with a much better interface than gimp IMHO, but was lacking some features and had some bugs in it's kde3 incarnation, what is absolutely normal once this software is still in it's infancy.

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Multiplatform Support
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @06:25

This is the biggest thing with me. I have to use Windows boxes at work. I dual-boot on my main desktop. I want to use the same suite on both Windows and Linux.

The moment I can run KOffice on Windows, and import Office 2003 docs reasonably well, I'm switching.

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Re: Multiplatform Support by Richard Van Den Boom on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @06:35

Re: Multiplatform Support by Cyrille Berger on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @06:54

Re: Multiplatform Support by she on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:09

Re: Multiplatform Support by Nik on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:46
Re: Multiplatform Support by kwilliam on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:46

Re: Multiplatform Support by Hello on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @09:57

Re: Multiplatform Support by Oscar on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @13:55

Re: Multiplatform Support by AC on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @08:03

Re: Multiplatform Support by Hello on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @09:53

Re: Multiplatform Support by Cyrille Berger on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @10:33

Re: Multiplatform Support by Ian Monroe on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @10:59
Light-weight office suite? by littlenoodles on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @12:15

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @12:52
Re: Light-weight office suite? by Hello on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @15:20

Re: Light-weight office suite? <-- Full feature pl by Max on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @16:01
Re: Light-weight office suite? by Linux on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @17:59

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Bobby on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @02:31

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Max on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:28
Re: Light-weight office suite? by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @04:27

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Kerr Avon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @02:48

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Boudewijn Rempt on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @03:55

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Kerr Avon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @12:55

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Mike on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:55

Re: Light-weight office suite? by T on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @04:00

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Bobby on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @01:59

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Anon on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @02:36

Re: Light-weight office suite? by T. J. Brumfield on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @05:59

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Max on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:38

Re: Light-weight office suite? by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @14:34

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Mike on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:36

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Kevin Krammer on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @10:38

Re: Light-weight office suite? by T. J. Brumfield on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @22:04
Re: Light-weight office suite? by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @04:36

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Erik on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @16:27

Re: Light-weight office suite? by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @04:33

Re: Multiplatform Support by Robert Knight on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @15:59

Re: Multiplatform Support by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @21:10

Re: Multiplatform Support by Manabu on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:43

Re: Multiplatform Support by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @21:38

Re: Multiplatform Support by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @21:45
Re: Multiplatform Support by Manabu on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @07:24

Re: Multiplatform Support by BCook2 on Thursday 20/Mar/2008, @15:54

Re: Multiplatform Support by oxblood on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @09:15

Re: Multiplatform Support by Grósz Dániel on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @12:45

Re: Multiplatform Support by Hello on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @15:34

Re: Multiplatform Support by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @02:39

Re: Multiplatform Support by digital.alterego on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @09:39

Re: Multiplatform Support by Marc Driftmeyer on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:53

Re: Multiplatform Support by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:58

Re: Multiplatform Support by Max on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:44

Re: Multiplatform Support by Riddle on Wednesday 27/Feb/2008, @06:15

Slightly off topic: Google takes a more active rol
by Hi on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @09:41

Google is taking a more active role in supporting Linux & Wine.

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2162

I'm guessing it won't be long until they will support the KDE 4.X platform more actively. (I hope!!)

Either way, we are thankful for google's role in the open source community.

Google - please become a patron of KDE.

Hopefully Google will host the next release party as well. I loved the webcast and Aaron Seigo's keynote. :-)

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Re: Slightly off topic: Google takes a more active by Anon on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @13:48

Changelog complete?
by AC on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @10:39

Is the changelog complete? The OpenDocument improvements are missing and almost all changes are from the drawing apps, but none from the office apps.

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open dialog
by Tom on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @13:45

There any plan to refresh the confusing open dialog?

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Re: open dialog by Thomas Zander on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @15:55

Release date?
by Jeremy on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @19:27

When is KOffice planned to be released? 4.1 maybe?

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Re: Release date? by Anonymous on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @00:02

Still a long way to go
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @09:33

Tested it a bit. Not even cell colors in spreadsheets is supported yet.
Koffice per se is getting very nice, but odf on it still have a lot of work ahead. Anyway a very nice version, run very well.
I just don't like how koffice uses too much screen, those new file dialog are just too big, and Krita panel by default don't even fit in my 1400x900 screen.

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Re: Still a long way to go by Max on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:45

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