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

>The dependence on GTK is so slight that, in the case of Firefox, a handful of KDE devs managed to remove all dependence on GTK from the 1.5M loc codebase and replace it with Qt in just *a few days*.

Really? That would be SO COOL!!! Where are the packages?

I would love to use KDE -Firefox. (or Fire-saur = Firefox + Konqii)

Is it any faster than the current version? Does it use less memory? What are the benefits?

Could we just do the same with OpenOffice?

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

> Really? That would be SO COOL!!! Where are the packages?

This work has been rejected by Mozilla, therefore it is no longer being worked on.

There is no point in working on something that will not be accepted by the application maintainers unless you intend to fork and forking a browser when you already have one isn't wise either.

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

Really?

Firefox used to have a QT branch back in the Firefox 1.5 days and they objected to the branch before. Firefox has tons of config options and branches, and I mean tons.

If someone wrote the code, then post it.

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Re: Light-weight office suite?
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @04:36

Another option is to develop the Qt version parallelly with the official branch and merge the changes of every new version. Of course this would need extra maintainence work.

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

> Could we just do the same with OpenOffice?

This seems to be done already. I am running OpenOffice with Qt widgets right now. Gentoo package app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 with USE-flag kde enabled.

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