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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Michael on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @00:49
Missing .PSD support in open source apps is quite unfortunate, because I often get layouts from external sources where I can't decide which format I'd like to receive. So I can't use Krita or GIMP for editing PSD files because PSD support is quite bad when opening current - say CS2 - files. But I understand why a closed-source binary format is very difficult to support.

What I don't understand why I still (April 2008) cannot open simple GIF files in Krita (using Kubuntu here). I've sometimes read that it's a Ubuntu problem but I wouldnt want to change the distro of my PC because of such a simple issue. Another idea I found was to recompile Krita. When there is an update I have to recompile again. This cannot be a solution to simply open a GIF file like the one you find at the top of this page. GIMP can do this as well. I know that PNG is a much better format, but sometimes I have the feeling that there is no understanding at all that you can't always choose which files you want to open.
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @01:46
We really cannot fix the kubuntu problems for you, I'm afraid. Since I'm not using Kubuntu myself I cannot even check what the problem is, though I suspect a lack of GraphicsMagick. I could replace the GraphicsMagick-based gif filter with filter based on Qt's gif support -- but there again, there's no guarantee that Qt will be compiled with gif support on all distributions. Writing a gif filter ourselves is a third option, but frankly, I've got enough to do already, so we'd need a volunteer for that.
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Re: Some KOffice2 questions
by Thomas Zander on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @10:32
I'll just repeat the normal; "don't report bugs on the dot, it will get lost and you will end up frustrated" line.
This is really a known bug and has little to do with KDE. Its Kubuntus issue.
see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/koffice/+bug/71711
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