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Re: Joining force with openOffice
by Bobby on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @01:22
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FIrst i would like to show my appreciation to the KOffice devs for the wonderful work that they are doing, for their time sacrificed and their talents. They are few and therefore have come a long way but it's just not enough compared with openOffice like you pointed out.
I am just wondering if it wouldn't be a smart idea and more productive to join force with the openOffice guys. I mean, openOffice is improving so fast that I think it will be impossible for KOffice to catch up with it's present resources.
I am not a coder so forgive me if I am wrong but wouldn't it be easier to develop a Qt interface for openOffice and have it better integrated in KDE than to programme a whole office suite?
I personally think that there is too much duplication of efforts and wasting of resources in the opensource world. |
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Re: Joining force with openOffice
by Anon on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @01:31
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OO.o's codebase is so huge and wretched that I honestly can't imagine anyone volunteering to work on it on their own time, and there's no guarantee at all that Sun would grant commit-rights to outsiders (OO.o is developed very much in a Cathedral-style). Frankly, I consider working on KOffice a vastly more appealing prospect, *and* in terms of technology it is by far the "best bet" if you want to make rapid progress. The lack of money spent on it is the *only* thing keeping it from absolutely crushing OO.o, in my opinion.
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Re: Joining force with openOffice
by eds on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @01:34
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No, it would be much harder to rewrite OpenOffice with Qt. OpenOffice.org codebase is so complex that it will really take away good developing time only to port it to Qt. In contrast, KOffice 2.0 is being rewritten and easier for developers to code (cleaner code base as well).
I believe currently KOffice has a very good technology (flake, pigment, etc) that will create a superior office suite in the future (given enough developers to pursue the dream). For example, using Flake technology you can embed any shape (chart, spreadsheet, vector graphics) in any KOffice application. This technology enables good component reuse and also better interaction among application.
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Re: Joining force with openOffice
by Birdy on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @14:27
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1.) I don't think OOo is improving fast. They have to invest huge efforts to clean up the code and architecture (there a lot of work left for several years). And to be honest, I didn't see a lot of real improvements from 2.1 to 2.3 (and even the upcoming 2.4).
2.) Imagine the few KOffice developers helping the huge OOo team. That wouldn't make a lot of difference for OOo. Especially as the KOffice's developers expertise is in slihgtly differnent topics.
3.) KOffice has a extremely nice basis. Just a little bit more development power, and it would show up as a nicely polished Office package.
4.) It's very nice to have several different office packages. They can serve different purposes and thus have differnet focus/strengthes/GUI (does OOo have something like Krita, KPlato or Kivio?). And having different bases helps to detect defects (like ODF support in the past in OOo an KOffice). Imagine a piece of software that has no competition - progress stalls!
To sum it up: If KOffice would "join" OOo, it would mean very very little gain, but a big loss.
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