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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: users book about KOffice
From:       "Eugene Nine" <enine () ninefamily ! com>
Date:       2004-01-29 13:32:56
Message-ID: 200401290532.AA260833542 () ninefamily ! com
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I was looking at the koffice site and the developer.kde.org and I can't find anything on koffice 2.0?  Am I looking in the wrong place?  I'm not a programmer so maybe I could help out with some of the documentation/testing.


Eugene Nine



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Raphael Langerhorst <raphael-langerhorst@gmx.at>
Reply-To: For discussion about KOffice <koffice@mail.kde.org>
Date:  Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:12:10 +0100

>Hello!
>
>I quite agree with John that a book can be written parallel to the development 
>of the application. Especially if the people writing the book are involved in 
>the development. Then it would be possible to publish the book very soon 
>after the new version of the application appears - and then you have a book 
>covering the current version.
>
>And the more mature an application gets the less it changes in its basic form. 
>So the book would be usable for two years or more - depending on how much 
>user visible changes are made to the app.
>
>Of course if you wait until the app gets out and THEN write a book, it would 
>be of less use.
>
>A reason for me to have a (new) book about KOffice would be the file format 
>move to OOo - which means great compatibility - and the fact that KOffice is 
>ready for real use and has only here and there a rough edge. So if the book 
>is started now it will probably be ready with the next version of KOffice 
>which then already has native OOo file format (it is planned for KPresenter 
><-> OOo Impress, KWord <-> OOo Writer and KSpread <-> OOo Calc). Besides a 
>lot of other improvements of course.
>
>
>greetings,
>Raphael
>
>
>On Wednesday 28 January 2004 19:39, John Mark Walker wrote:
>> 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
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