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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: 4 questions/comments
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-11-01 13:46:05
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On Friday 01 November 2002 01:17, Ashley Shugart wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>    1. I have seen the FAQ.
Good.

>    2. You say to mail to "koffice at kde dot org".  I assmue that you
>       meant for the "mailto:" URL to be "koffice@kde.org" but it comes
>       up as "koffice at kde dot org" in the "Compose new mail..."
>       window!  If this is intentional, then it is not clear that this is
>       intentional. (Same applies for "jost at schenck dot de")

This is an anti-spam measure. We expect readers to be able to recompose
the mail address from it, but not spammer's robot collecting emalis.
BTW KMail in kde-3.1 recomposes the address automatically when pasting it.

>    3. Can KOffice be installed in parts? Can I install only KWord or KSpread, or choose
>       to not install Kivio?  (from source and/or binary)

- From source: yes you can do that, using either DO_NOT_COMPILE or
by only checking out the stuff you want to install. (Note that you need lib/
in all cases).
- From binaries: it depends on the packaging. With all-in-one koffice rpms,
you can't. If there is one package per app, then you can. Pretty obvious, no?
(See also the KDE Packaging Policy, about why this isn't our responsibility).

>    4. Where do I propose a new application I would like to see included
>       in KOffice?  I think a money management tool would be a good
>       component for an office productivity suite.  Personally, I am
>       desparate for a good money management tool for Linux.  I used
>       Quicken on Windows for years before switching all my financial
>       info. over to Gnucash.  Then I couldn't get Gnucash to run!  Now I
>       have no way of managing my finances.  I have been investigating
>       apps like "kmymoney" as potential replacemnts, but without much
>       luck.  Given the high degree of productivity and enthusiasm
>       surrounding KOffice I think being included in the suite would be a
>       "shot in the arm" for such a project.  I don't think adding yet
>       another app. to KOffice is  necessarily bad, depending on the
>       answer to question 3.  I imagine that the end user might choose to
>       not install this app., if he didn't want to.

This has little to do with KOffice (see the FAQ on why there's no mailer in koffice, etc.)
(KOffice is about creating embeddable & printable documents).
Hmm, now I can't remember the name, but there's a well-maintained financial
app for KDE, developed out of KDE CVS. I curse my bad memory :)
Please check on apps.kde.com, I think you'll find it easily.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
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