KOffice 2.0 unleashed on world

http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/

Targeted Audience

Our goal for now is to release a first preview of what we have accomplished. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.

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Before people start screaming like they did when KDE 4.0 was release :rolleyes:
 
general_koffi said:
Haha.

What advantages would this have (when actually finished) compared to Open Office?
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I have a Mac with the older PPC chip and the Openoffice port on this (English version) only goes up to 2.4.1, which doesn't support the ODF (open document format) which is needed at least to read Office 2007 documents.

I hoped to have better joy with Koffice but the website a) warns that 2.0.0 is still being tested, and b) doesn't seem to have any Mac ports at all (as indicated in their pr).

So I guess there's a potential advantage for me if/when it does support ODF for Mac PPC, but that's yet to be realised.
 
KOffice has one or two bonuses - KPlato for one

Anyways - why the heck should people not do what they want?
May as well say "FF developers should rather have worked on Opera" or "Vista devs on Ubuntu" or or or.

Innovation, competition and a sense of ownership people! Or has SA's love of no-choice and monopolies affected you to that level?
 
<moLe> said:
it just boggles my mind why these developer teams didnt rather contribute their time to OO, I mean seriously
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Why? It's their passion, their time, their project.
What is wrong with having diversity and options?
 
the only issue i have with it is having to bring in all those KDE dependencies. So I gues it will be a no go on my laptop. Will try it out on my desktop though.
 
milomak said:
the only issue i have with it is having to bring in all those KDE dependencies. So I gues it will be a no go on my laptop. Will try it out on my desktop though.
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Valid enough a concern - but I use Kubuntu :D


I am just amazed at the people on this forum who bash this type of "competition" and then bemoan the lack of choice in the telecomms market.

Boggles the mind.
 
Moederloos said:
Valid enough a concern - but I use Kubuntu :D


I am just amazed at the people on this forum who bash this type of "competition" and then bemoan the lack of choice in the telecomms market.

Boggles the mind.
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it's only an issue on my laptop tbf (i think its 120GB). the kde annoyance comes from when i tried to install konsole (i prefer the KDE version) on my laptop (which runs lxde) and had to get 150MB+ worth of dependencies. k3b is not on for a similar reason.

but don't let me hijack this thread.

i've previously used KOffice and with OOo becoming more sluggish it might have to be the one I use if it is zippier.
 
milomak said:
it's only an issue on my laptop tbf (i think its 120GB). the kde annoyance comes from when i tried to install konsole (i prefer the KDE version) on my laptop (which runs lxde) and had to get 150MB+ worth of dependencies. k3b is not on for a similar reason.


i've previously used KOffice and with OOo becoming more sluggish it might have to be the one I use if it is zippier.
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Fortunately I use KDE on my laptop & desktop. I must however add that my laptop is older so things are a bit slower and stuff like Openbox, LXDE & XFCE (not Xubuntu) really makes it fly. Oh well there is always Abiword, Gnumeric etc

That is my main gripe with OO, Java. Koffice is much snappier. I wish they would get rid of Java in OO but it is pretty much the foundation for OO so it wont be easy.
 
Adie said:
How is this different from OpenOffice? I am using OpenOffice on Kubuntu, I don't really understand how KOffice will be any different? Does it have more functions? It's a lot of bandwidth to download and if I am not mistaken, these K-stuff aren't available locally?
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Repos are locally mirrored.

KOffice has different features to Open Office - KPlato is one (Project Management ala Microsoft Project. But - OpenProject is the best out there).

KOffice also loads faster. And it uses KDE4 which looks nice.

I still use OO for almost everything, but will give KOffice a whirl some time
 
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