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Subject:    Re: users book about KOffice
From:       "Eugene Nine" <enine () ninefamily ! com>
Date:       2004-01-28 18:51:47
Message-ID: 200401281115.AA347406412 () ninefamily ! com
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Koffice must be moving a bit slower than the rest of KDE then.  I've only been using \
linux/kde for about 6 months not and have upgraded from kde 3.1.0 to 3.1.3 then 3.1.4 \
and 3.2 is coming out soon.  Started with Koffice 1.2 and then 1.3 and 2.0 should be \
soon so it seems to me like the release cycles are about 6 months.  It would take me \
longer than that to write a book then get it published and such, seems like ti would \
be really outdated by the time it gets in print.  I'm coming from the M$ world where \
they went from office 2000 in late 1999 to offuce XP in 2002 so there was a two year \
cycle, which seemed to be just about enough time to gat a book publiched before the \
next major upgrade :)

Eugene Nine



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: John Mark Walker <johnmark@johnmark.org>
Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:39:06 -0800 (PST)

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Eugene Nine wrote:
> 
> > How long is the current time from writeing a book to the publish time, IIRC it \
> > used to be measured in months.  With Koffice and Kde changes are happening fairly \
> > quick, wouldn't it be difficult to keep a book up to date with the current \
> > kde/koffice? 
> > Eugene Nine
> 
> It depends on which point of view is used for the book. From a user's 
> point of view, there will probably be quite a few changes between now and 
> KOffice 2.0. If the book were to be a user's guide, then I would want it 
> to cover new features for 2.0, or whatever the next rev will be called.
> 
> > From the developer's point of view, unless KParts undergoes a radical 
> change in the next couple of years, then I don't see too much changing. My 
> understanding was that the API's were pretty solid by now. Please correct 
> me if that is indeed wrong.
> 
> Either way, as long as you can publish the book soon after the software 
> release, it should be good for at least a couple of years. After all, how 
> long did it take to release 1.3 after releasing 1.2? And how much of the 
> user or developer experience has actually changed in that time?
> 
> -JM
> 
> -- 
> No GUI... and No Starch!
> http://www.nostarch.com/
> 
> 
 

 
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