KOffice 1.3 Released

I tried the steps you suggested, but no luck for me on compiliing. After downloading the ebuild and trying to run "emerge koffice-1.3.ebuild digest", I get an error message stating that no masked or unmasked packages exist to satisfy the dependencies for digest. Running your second command failed as well. I'm really anxious to try 1.3. Any suggestions?

Paul.....

Remove /home/donalbain/.local/share/applications/kde-kword.desktop

Cheers,
Waldo

You don't need a hint - there's a public release plan.

http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-release-plan.html

For those too lazy to copy/paste the link above, the release date is the 2nd of Febuary (of course, it might change between now and then but let's hope not :)

>Having just tried out new KWord I have high hopes she'll not be moaning anymore.

hummm, I will probably be shot for this (was off at /. recently), but are you sure that is what you wish to do? :)

No, there is not a way to use OO file formats as default.

I would not even recommend to always save as OOWriter in KWord, as for example table support is missing.

(saving in RTF would be better but there OOWriter has some known problems.)

Have a nice day!

You know how to use zero's and one's and eventually format them to display strings 'True' and 'False', right? :)

How cross platform is MS Office? ;)

AFAIK, KOffice will make the OO.o document format the default format and they say it can already import and export to it (don't know if it's complete?). If they are using the same document format, it doesn't matter that much what office suite you're using.

Another pretty interesting new feature is this: "Also new is the ability to import PDF files into KWord and make changes to the document."

I'm not aware of any other Office suite that can do that?

depends on how you see it; KOffice was recently ported to MAC ... and KDE works on Cygwin, so I guess KOffice works in Cygwin also (?)
This makes KOffice work on: Linux, MAC and Windows. KDE also works on Solaris - so now you have it everywhere where OpenOffice.org runs. And KDE also runs on some other UNIX systems AFAIK. Seen this way you have KOffice running on more platforms than OOo.

greetings,
Raphael

Openoffice is not integrated into the desktop, it has to create its own widget set, and can't reuse kde components.
KOffice is and can.

How can OpenOffice compete if it has to redo everything poorly?

By being better technology?

Let me ask a question. Can you use OOWriter as a part in your application? Easily?

You can use the various KOffice components in applications you build. KWord, KChart, etc. They are designed that way. The KDE framework is designed for that sort of thing. Just look at the huge numbers of vertical apps available for windows, and you see the advantage of a component based architecture.

Using KWord as a word processor under another desktop environment gives you a nice word processor. Within KDE, it becomes a very powerful component of a very powerful desktop.

Derek

Did you install from binary packages like rpm's? If so, perhaps need to install the development packages as well.

If you have already installed these (or installed from source), the only thing I can think of is how odd it is that kde is in /usr/local and the kde libs are in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib. Then again, that may be normal. I wouldn't know since I put kde in /opt. :)

Check your $KDEDIR and $KDEDIRS environment variables.

(However it could be other problems too.)

Have a nice day!