From kde-devel  Sun Feb 16 02:28:48 2003
From: Eric Laffoon <sequitur () easystreet ! com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:28:48 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: A killer app for KOffice/KDE?
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On Saturday 15 February 2003 1:09 pm, Adam Treat wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I was reading the slashdot article on David Stutz (the guy in charge of
> Rotor ... MS's Shared Source CLI) leaving Microsoft when I came across an
> interesting quote:
>
> "During this period, most core Microsoft products missed the Internet wave,
> even while claiming to be leading the parade. Office has yet to move past
> the document abstraction, despite the world's widespread understanding that
> websites (HTML, HTTP, various embedded content types, and Apache mods) are
> very useful things."
>
> http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html
>
> This started me thinking ...  KOffice (specifically KWord) can save
> documents as HTML right now and wouldn't it be interesting to take this
> feature and create a more ubiquitous network centric document publishing
> feature.  I am talking about combining the formidable document
> creation/editing facilities of the various KOffice apps and combining this
> with a web server/content management suite to create a network centric
> office suite.
>
> To be clear I am not talking about renting productivity software over the
> web ... rather the idea is to combine all the powerful office apps into
> super powerful WikiWiki web editors and then to provide a KDE Kiosk mode
> that would manage the templates/workflow/user rights of the repository for
> these documents.
>
> I'm sure many have thought of this kind of application before, but the
> interesting part is using a powerful office suite as the editor and having
> it built into the desktop.  Many people were using VNC before, but I think
> the KDE desktop sharing feature will provide a surge in this kind of usage.
> Similarly, if KOffice were to adopt this kind of idea, I think it could be
> very powerful and serve as another valuable addition.
>
> Do any of you think corporations or governments would like to see such an
> application?  Do you think they would like to see such an application
> integrated with a full office suite AND have that office suite fully
> integrated into the desktop?  I do.  Perhaps I'm full of *&#^ here, but I
> thought I'd see what everyone else thinks :)
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
> PS Eric Laffoon has really got me syched about Quanta as a killer web
> developer app for KDE.  Blame him :)
>
Don't blame me! I don't think this is the forum for this (as in OT), not to 
say there isn't some merit somewhere in these musings. Traditionally you 
should bring some code to the conversation or at least specifics. Some of 
what is mentioned here has mountains of issues against the idea.

Conversely on a more speccific note if anyone is interested in assuming 
responsibility for some of the subprojects of Quanta like WebDAV or 
integrating XML Schemas as well as working on our KDE DocBook configuration 
please contact me or our devel list... You too Adam. ;) Maybe I can get you 
interested in working on some innovative ideas with us.
-- 
Eric Laffoon                    sequitur@kde.org
Quanta+ Team Leader
http://quanta.sourceforge.net
 
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