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KOffice not at all release ready
by AC Of Course on Wednesday 27/Sep/2000, @20:47

Konqui seems pretty unstable too - *ESPECIALLY* as a web browser.

Someone else mentioned that Koffice isn't "ready". It's true that Koffice has no useful help files or documentation (one is supposed to know all about MSWord and just guess that Koffice is similar or something). The reason is that KDE and KOffice are simply amazing projects - open source is way more stable than the "shareware" approach - but it just doesn't compare to polished commercial software (remember MSWord is in version 9 or so). But if people would/could use Koffice widely (thus helping debug it) and document it, provide tips. etc it will improve rapidly. It would be nice to have auto bug and crash data reporting; auto file saving on crashes (so the fact that it's buggy won't stop people from using it); and a template or series or python/dcops macros that would make it really easy to create a simple Koffice "tip" or "how to" (replete with screen shots) and would automatically upload them to a central web site. A categorized list of tips and how tos (in searchable XML) would be maintained so that less duplication would occur. After 3-6 months someone could edit, merge and purge the contributions and put together a fairly comprehensive bunch of documentation.

The problem will be that unlike kernel hackers which are numerous since commercial companies benefit from enhancing the system for use as server OS (and these people are knowledgable experts) typical Koffice users won't be coders. So it will be difficult to see the same kind of improvements occur in Koffice as have occurred in the kernel. In some ways Koffice is more complex as well ...

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Re: KOffice not at all release ready
by cockney on Thursday 28/Sep/2000, @01:01

Try Star Office. It rarely crashes and although it is slow it does just about everything imaginable:)

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