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What about KOffice?
by Andrea on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @02:42

Wise decision! Waldo, thank you for taking kare of the release schedule in such a professional way. I have still an other kuestion:

Will Koffice also be delayed?

I think it should be. The number of minutes it takes me to get KWord or KPresenter (Koffice 1.1 Beta 3) to krash is still less then 3 withuot particularly heavy testing :-<.

I think the basic functionality is there. we need to koncentrate more on the stability, that's klear ;-).

PS: BTW, may be I am I the only one having these problems. Any comments/experiences on the stability of the varoius packages?

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @03:18

> The number of minutes it takes me to get KWord or KPresenter (Koffice 1.1 Beta 3) to krash is still less then 3 withuot particularly heavy testing :-<.

Hmm? That's not at all my experience. I'm running KDE 2.2 beta from CVS on a two heavily modified Mandrake 7.2 systems and have installed it from RPM on a new Mandrake 8.0 system with 2.2 beta installed from RPM. Both systems are running the new koffice beta, one from cvs and one from RPM. I have not seen any crashes.

What I have seen is absolutely terrible printing! I did a beautiful four page presentation in kword and it took about 20 tries massaging the layout to finally get it to produce a printed copy that did not clip the end of lines. I had to finally insert hard returns in a few places. It's really great until you get to that glaring problem. Aside from that kword is not spectacular but very good for most use and exceptional in a few areas.

One other thing is that it seems to limit my font selection. I hope they fix the printing and keep on with the rest.

BTW you must have something wrong with your install to have kword croaking like that.

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Re: What about KOffice?
by SD on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @04:20

Actually I've had a beta 3 build of KWord break on documents with tables that span multiple pages. It seems to work great on simpler documents. What would be nice is if the import filter could bet setup to log the document load process that way we could tell which MS Word feature broke KWord. The entire office suite is comming along nicely, kudos to the programmers.

SD

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Re: What about KOffice?
by shaheed on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @06:14

In fact, the multi-page table was a known problem which David fixed shortly after beta 3...so the good news is that current CVS and the full release should work OK!

As always, if you have specific documents that (a) are causing you problems and (b) are not confidential, then feedback via bugs.kde.org will draw attention to the problem!

Thanks, Shaheed

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Re: What about KOffice?
by SD on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @13:50

Very cool. What I can do is replace the text of the document (it's my resume :) with random garbage and post it to bugs if it's still causing problems with the CVS copy. Off to to compile a fresh batch of code.

Thanks

SD

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Jerome Loisel on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @15:06

Hmmm... You could write a small "garbling" script and put it in "Help" maybe, alongside bug reporting. The script would change all letters to "a" (or a random one), and all numbers to "0" (or a random one).

Then no-one would have a reason not to give you the document, and you would have no reason not to ask for one. You could even add a "Submit garbled document" checkbox in the bug reporting tool to boot.

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Gregory W. Brubaker on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @15:44

If it fails during an attempt to import a word document, then how could one modify what one can't open?

However, for other cases, not related to importing, but, say related to printing, such might not be bad idea.

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Re: What about KOffice?
by AB on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @16:13

Do we really want to optimize for bug reporting ?
Will this make KOffice look good ?

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Carbon on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @18:33

I think that a stable, featureful KOffice in a few years would look great! Helping users help developers will only improve the quality of the software.

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @04:38

> Will Koffice also be delayed?

KOffice is on a seperate schedual, which can be found here:

http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/koffice-1.1-release-plan.html

It should be a fairly similar schedual, but they are "unlinked" to allow either to be delayed without holding up the other. If KDE gets delayed too much, then obviously KOffice won't work without the last betas. If KOffice gets held up, then KDE gets released with no problem.

--
Evan

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Re: What about KOffice?
by Erik Hill on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @21:09

Kut that out! It's driving me krazy!!!

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