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KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone
Today Thomas Zander from Nokia announced in a blog (http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/17/office-viewer-...) that Nokia will be using KOffice as the core of the office viewer of Maemo 5. "The KOffice community is very happy to see this development", says Inge Wallin, marketing coordinator of KOffice. "It shows that our long and persistent work on compatibility and adaptibility within KOffice has paid off and is visible to outside viewers." Nokia has created a customized GUI based on the Maemo 5 touch screen interface on top of the KOffice core. It has also worked on maturing the support for MS Office documents more mature. For more information also see this email on the KOffice mailinglist: http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice&m=125319299319078&... About KOffice: KOffice is a free office suite created by the KDE community. It contains a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation application as well as advanced graphics applications such as Krita, a drawing and image manipulation program and Karbon, a vector graphics application. It is built on on top of KDE technology and the Qt toolkit. For questions please contact Inge Wallin at ingwa@kde.org Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher Amarok community manager kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org claimid.com/nightrose _______________________________________________ Kde-press-announce mailing list Kde-press-announce@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-press-announce (Log in to post comments)
KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone Posted Sep 18, 2009 4:26 UTC (Fri) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
This makes sense. Nokia plans to move towards Qt, and they will want an office suite, so KOffice seems like the obvious starting point.
KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone Posted Sep 20, 2009 8:36 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
moreover, if you want an office on mobile devices, there isn't much choice
in the foss world, is there? Oo.o is probably too heavy. You could use abiword for word docs, probably gnummeric for excel but you're still out of luck for ppt.
KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone Posted Sep 18, 2009 7:36 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
I'm still hoping that one day they will support MS Office formats well. But they seem to be betting on those formats becoming irrelevant some day, and I fear that day may still be a while in coming.
KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone Posted Sep 18, 2009 9:18 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
As you can see from the KOffice 2.1 beta2 announcement (http://www.koffice.org/news/koffice-2-
1-beta-2-released/), there has been a lot of work recently on supporting at least .doc and .ppt. I am fairly confident that .docx and .pptx will come as well. Excel compatibility was already quite good. But, yeah, well, we certainly expect that the importance of binary or xml based MS file formats will wane, given that many governments are moving to odt.
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