From koffice Fri Jan 30 10:43:50 2004 From: Raphael Langerhorst Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:43:50 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: users book about KOffice Message-Id: <200401301140.00775.raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=107545980230707 On Thursday 29 January 2004 18:49, Eugene Nine wrote: > Eugene Nine > > I thought somewhere back in one of the early post someone was volunteering > :). I thought koffice 2 or whatever the next version is going to be was > going to be soon from all the talk I was seeing so I didn't understand how > a book could get published in time and was volunteering to help out on a > book for the next release. Since the next release is far enough out that a > book on it will be possible I can volunteer to help on on that. But after > seeing my communication skills you may not wich to take me up on that offer > :) I think it's great if you volunteer to help out. Since KOffice consists of many parts it should also be easy to distribute work between more authors. A general structure of the book might be: * introduction * what is KOffice * what does it have to offer (features,...) / what can be done with KOffice / KOffice and OOo interoperability / areas of deployment / What's about this 'K'? * what is KDE * what is OSS * how to install * prerequisites (kdelibs) * KOffice on Linux * rpm/deb package from Linux distributors * from source * KOffice on MAC OS X * KOffice on Windows (Cygwin(possible?)) * A short introduction to KDE * the panel * starting KOffice * ... ? * KOffice overview * all that's common in all parts including general look&feel * Wordprocessing with KWord * Spreadsheets with KSpread * Presentations with KPresenter * Flowcharts and Diagrams with Kivio * Business class reports with Kugar * Database management with Kexi * Drawings with Karbon and Krita * difference between vector graphics and pixmap(?) graphics * Utilities KFormula, KChart * ... ? * KOffice and other office suites (including interoperability) * file format * OOo * Abiword * Gnumeric * MS Office * Hancom Office * older versions of KOffice * other everyday KDE applications: * Kontact (* Konqueror) * future developments * KDE and KOffice in the internet * ?? Any suggestions on this general book-structure? Anyone wants to work on one of these chapters? You think a book with this structure is interesting for users? My mother tongue is German. What do you think of a translation to English/ German? The book will of course cover the next major release of KOffice - the one with OOo file formats - either 1.4 or 2.0. I think if the book is well designed (content and look/layout) it will be a great support for people wanting to use KOffice - or trying to find out which office suite suites them best. greetings, Raphael > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Raphael Langerhorst > Reply-To: For discussion about KOffice > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:33:38 +0100 > > >comments inline... > > > >On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:56, Eugene Nine wrote: > >> So it sounds like a Koffice 2.0 is much further away than I thought. > >> Which is god timing for someone who wishes to write a book, they can > >> start on 1.3 and follow the changes/additions and just make the book > >> match. > > > >That's quite the reason why I started the thread (in addition to the file > >format change to OOo which should be finished with the next major release > > ... IMHO). > > > >Is anyone volunteering for writing a book? > > > >> I was worried about using koffice a while back sine I had heard about > >> the format changing with 2.0 until I found the command line > >> import/convert tool so I felt safe that I could simply convert > >> everything over at one point with that tool. > > > >Yes, KOffice 2.0 is surely some distance off. To my knowledge it is not > > even decided what the next version number will be. > > > >> I assume the templates will follow the OO standard as well, one > >> thing I can't do easily in Kword at the moment is use a templae for an > >> Avery label. I have to run open office for that. Any chance there will > >> be command like file viewers/editors (I'm drifting way off the topic of > >> the thread here so if someone wants to know why I'll start a new thread > >> and explain). > > > >I think if you are missing some functionality then you should surely start > >either a new thread for it or file in a wish item in the bug tracking > > system. > > > >> Eugene Nine > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > >> From: David Faure > >> Reply-To: For discussion about KOffice > >> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:13:09 +0100 > >> > >> >On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:32, Eugene Nine wrote: > >> >> I was looking at the koffice site and the developer.kde.org and I > >> >> can't find anything on koffice 2.0? > >> > > >> >We have only just started the changes post 1.3. > >> >The roadmap is yet to be decided upon, the only clear thing is the work > >> > on the OOo file format. > >> > > >> >-- > >> >David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, > >> >[...] > >> > >> [...] ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice