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On Thursday 31 October 2002 15.46, Piotr Gawrysiak wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I hope that this post is not too off topic and that it is not too na=EFve
> etc. - if it is, please excuse my stupidity :-

KDE and Qt are written in C++, OpenOffice in C

Porting code between the two projects is not trivial, and given the amount =
of=20
rewriting that would be necessary to get OpenOffice to use KDE technologies=
,=20
you could write an entire office suite from scratch.=20

There is work going on to standardise file formats, and to share work on=20
filters (filters for opening other office suite formats, that is.)=20

If it was easier and made sense to use OpenOffice sources, then KDE would d=
o=20
so.  It isn't, it doesn't, and so we don't.

> Of course there is KOffice. But in its current state (especially
> considering lack of developers and - what is probably much more important

So, given that you consider koffice under developed, and you aren't offerin=
g=20
to contribute code, please tell me where you expect these other developers=
=20
who are going to port a behemoth like OO from one programming language to=20
another, are going to come from?

> and what might be the reason for it - lack of marketing and media
> attention) it somehow does not seem promising (see note 4) :( Even outside

And it's delivering on those promises.  Several components of KOffice 1.2 a=
re=20
very professional indeed, and more than stable and usable in an office=20
environment.

> note 4 - which is a shame, because KOffice has lots of potential. However=
 -
> this is just as with KDE vs GNOME wars - does Open Source community have
> enough resources to push two similar projects at the same time now?=20

Yes.  It categorically does.  If someone went "abracadabra" and magically m=
ade=20
KOffice disappear tomorrow, then most of the developers would not go work o=
n=20
Open Office, they'd find something else in KDE to do.  And if OpenOffice.or=
g=20
decided to pull the plug, assuming KOffice would suddenly benefit by a bunc=
h=20
of new developers eagerly looking for an office suite to work on, is naive.=
  =20
If they liked coding in C++ with KDE and Qt libs, they'd already be here=20
doing so.

=46WIW, there is no war between developers, only on slashdot and lists like=
=20
these, and generally only between users and trolls.  Liking one thing, does=
=20
not imply hating the other.  So I don't use GNOME, and work on KDE - that=20
doesn't mean I have any particular opinion of GNOME, and most people are li=
ke=20
me.  I don't use Linux either.

Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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