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Good news or bad news?
by sarang on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @13:38

I don't know whether this is good news or bad news. Here we have, another office suite coming in town.. that means another set of file formats to take care of. Is TheKompany planning to keep all file formats open? Or are they heading in the same dirty direction of M$ where the file formats are not documented atall!

Its based on Qt3 and we know that KDE 3 isn't coming out anytime soon. That means Qt3 won't be installed by default.. When Qt3 is installed on top of Qt2, what happens?

Now what lies in future for KOffice? What happens to Kivio, ReKall, Aethera? Does the GPL development stop suddenly?

Anyway, definitely a good news that another application suite is coming to Linux and esp. KDE! Star office is too bloated since it uses its own UI library and nobody else used the KDE/Qt framework till now.. So this could head towards success!!

Finally, I just hope they select some better names.. Hancom, QuickSilver etc. are not at all trendy..

sarang

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Re: Good news or bad news?
by Craig on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @13:48

I'm sure they will be staticly linked binary's. I'm very excited about this. Finally a real MS Office competitor thats not running wine. The best thing of all is that its Qt so it will fit nicely into my desktop.
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Craig

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Re: Good news or bad news?
by ac on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @00:16

Staroffice/openOffice is not running Wine
The Gnome office proograms also dont depend on wine

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Re: Good news or bad news?
by Joe KDE on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @06:40

I believe the grandparent said "a real MS Office competitor."

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