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Sad news about KOffice
by Richard Van Den Boom on Wednesday 27/Feb/2008, @23:01

The news about KOffice are a bit sad, though not exactly new : KOffice has always lacked developpers, it seems.
It's probably too late for KOffice 2.0, but maybe there could a good focus on KOffice for the Summer of Code to attract young dev to this office suite?
I really wish it to grow, as the latest Alpha version I've tested was very promising.
By the way, I've read the blog on planetkde about MS binary format and why they're so complicated. I promise I'll never ask again for better MS filters in KOffice. :-)
Would be nice to have a command line tool using OOo filters to immediately convert to ODF without having to load and save in OOo though...

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Re: Sad news about KOffice
by renoX on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @09:55

I wonder if one of the problem of KOffice isn't the rewrites, I don't follow its development closely but each time, there's talk about 'ground rewrites'.

If memory serves, KWord has been rewritten from scratch, which explain that it may not be ready soon..

I agree with your point about using OOo as a filter: no need to waste development hour on this point, it may be a bit big in disk space but stripping everything not needed from OOo could reduce this point.

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Re: Sad news about KOffice
by ac on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @10:36

KWord had some problems with text rendering in 1.x which couldn't be solved without rewritting of some parts.

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