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KOffice 2.1 released
Version 2.1 of the KOffice office suite has been
announced.
"The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.
The advantages of the clean and well-structured codebase have started to show. Despite a relatively limited developer group, there are a large number of improvements over 2.0. During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux."
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KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:06 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
Anyone have experience of how it compares to OpenOffice? As in what Oo.o does better and what KOffice does better?
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:47 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] I think the linked-to release note honestly made clear this is not yet ready for prime time. Many features are still missing or limited, and expected in 2.2 or 2.3. So comparing this to the quite mature OOo would not be fair.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:57 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
Please, I'm not looking for an excuse to bash either of them, I'm just interested in KOffice's progress :)
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 18:57 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]
sounds like the KDE mindset in general these days.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 26, 2009 2:15 UTC (Thu) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]
What, release early and release often? That's the open source methodology, something some people seem to have forgotten around here. Sadly.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 26, 2009 8:56 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
> What, release early and release often? That's the open source methodology [...]
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be that simple once a project passes a certain size. Too many people just refuse to touch the code until they deem it stable unless the coolness factor of some of the new features outweighs.
I'm not so arrogant as to pretend I have a brilliant solution where cleverer minds than mine stumble. The only thing I can think of is to modularise aggressively, so that people can use stable code overall and still try out those (little) bits of the development code that especially interest them - and hope that most of the development code will end up being covered and tested.
I think this is something that might apply to testing versions of distributions too, if you substitute package with module.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 11:08 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Something I always liked about OO.o's writer compared to koffice (at least versions I tried) is that it is better suited if you want to consider the logical structure of a document rather than simple wysiwyg editing.
I didn't get to play with any recent version of koffice, though.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 26, 2009 13:32 UTC (Thu) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
I'm assuming you just wrote it the wrong way around, right? In that following the structure in KWord is far easier than in OO.o's writer? As the latter is just as bad as MS Word - which sucks at keeping large documents in a logical structure.
KOffice 2.1 released Posted Nov 25, 2009 10:38 UTC (Wed) by sturmflut (subscriber, #38256) [Link]
Maemo will be using a Document Viewer based on KOffice, not the full installation.
If you can build a document viewer out of stock C++ Linux Desktop code and just cross-compile it for your mobile phone that's pretty awesome. They already ported some parts of the KDE Plasma Shell to Maemo, so you may end up running the same environment on your Desktop and your phone...
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