From kde-devel  Tue Aug 31 18:41:38 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:41:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: the end of KOffice?
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Rob Kaper wrote:
>This should have very little impact on Koffice. Open source or not, Star
>Office lacks KDE integration, which is one of the most important parts of
>Koffice.
>
>It's likely they will try and get some integration in it though, but AFAIK
>they want to keep the lay-out closely tied to the Windows lay-out (so you
>really have one identical application on all platforms). The KDE/Koffice
>combination focuses on something else: one identical lay-out for all
>applications on the desktop.
>
>The only important issue might be compatibility with document formats. The
>suite that can handle Office documents the best way probably has an
>advantage over the other.
>
>Can anyone tell me how well Koffice and SO handle these formats?

If you speak about M$-Office formats: People are working on M$-Word,
M$-PowerPoint and M$-Execl import.

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Reggie