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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Negative review of koffice..
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-20 8:43:59
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It's called koffice@kde.org, you can post there, but we already know about those
printing (fonts) problems and missing zoom functionality. It's the current
discussion on that list.
Do people know that this great app was written by ONE very devoted guy ?
As long as there aren't more KOffice developers, the situation is not going
to improve much.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:35:12AM +0200, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Hi, could someone forward this to kde-koffice@kde.org ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tackat
> 
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To test kword in real-world-situations I tried to do create a 
> letter of application which is a very basic and common
> task. I felt very enthusiastic after the multimedia-fairs 
> about kword so I assumed that it would work fine.
> 
> After a day of various attempts it turned out that 
> it works only in theory and not in practice (only on a quick 
> glimpse for some small test purposes):
> 
> - It doesn't offer real WYSIWYG. I tried to print my letter 
>   in 11pt or 10pt and the output looked worse than anything
>   I would have expected. For 12 pt (which is the default 
>   setting) it worked acceptable if your expectations aren't
>   too high.
> - It heavily lacks zooming a page. As soon as you type
>   10 pt-fonts the document becomes unreadable on the average
>   screen of a user and for the average eyes of an average
>   50-year-old secretary. 10 pt-fonts are very common 
>   in the world today and are still not something that one
>   would call small. 
> 
> So unless these to problems are being fixed we only have 
> a 99%-feature-blown wordprocessing-app that works nicely
> in theory but is UNUSABLE for most common tasks in practice.
> This goes so far that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone
> who wants to print his document at a certain point of time
> for serious usage.
> On the other side: Once the problems above are fixed 
> it would be undoubtfully a great killer-app.
> 
> ;-( Greetings,
> 
> Tackat

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