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Re: Multiplatform Support
by she on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:09
"but the lack of a developer interested in doing the work."

Ok I can understand that there is interesting coding work and boring coding work.

But many people can pay a little bit of money, and in this situation it might be worth to raise money to overcome the problem with the lack of interest. Isn't there some kind of "bounty" concept? I reckon that there _are_ enough people that dont mind to throw in a few bucks every now and then to projects they regard as interesting. And this work here is also needed by quite many.
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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Nik on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:46
Look here: http://dot.kde.org/1199838571/
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Re: Multiplatform Support
by kwilliam on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:46
We just need to get Google to pitch in a few bucks, like they did to get Photoshop working in Wine. Although I reckon Google probably uses Google Docs internally. :-(

Yeah, I'd pitch in $10 to help hire a Microsoft compatibility guy for KOffice. I don't currently use KOffice, but from the screenshots, I'd like to. OpenOffice is just a Word 2003 clone, whereas KOffice appears to have some fresh ideas.

But now technically, all that's needed is a perfect .doc to .odf (and vice versa) converter right? Then as long as KOffice supported .odf perfectly*, an existing third party library could be used to translate between .odf and .doc. Such converters (albeit not perfect ones) already exist, right?

*and I know I'm using the word perfectly a little liberally here. Even OpenOffice interprets some ODF incorrectly apparently, according to the standard.
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Re: Multiplatform Support
by AC on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @08:03
I think the reason OpenOffice.org still sucks is because they spend too many time and resources chasing after microsoft, and too few cleaning up the codebase, and adding new features to it.

I hope KOffice doesn't go down the same path.

If you want to import m$ office docs, use openoffice to convert them first to odf (I think koffice 2 even ships with a script that automates this). Why spend more time and money chasing after the same tail lights as OOo?
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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @02:39
The big problem is not really the lack of interest, but the lack of time. All KOffice developers are really busy on getting the necessary features done. A bounty won't give us more hours in a day -- unless the bounty were big enough to enable us to stop doing our day jobs. We just need more people who want to develop on KOffice.

It's an interesting project with many really interesting things to do. Even writing an ms-office file format filter can be really interesting: look for instance at the wv2 library project. There's lots of fun to be had working on that.
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