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Subject:    Re: take KOffice out of Kde?
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-05 10:24:42
Message-ID: 200710051224.42939.zander () kde ! org
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On Friday 05 October 2007 11:56:42 Terry-67 wrote:
> Improving accessibility is no big advantage commercially,

That depends; various businesses and certainly governments don't want to touch 
our software if its not accessible.
With Qt4 its 98% accessible already, though.  All normal widgets will be 
available for blind (/etc) users.
Its just the custom widgets (our canvasses are a prime example) that we need 
to do a11y work on.

> I suppose but 
> catering for the main O.S. is.  

I bet it will make a big difference in how many people take it seriously, yes.

> Does the vision for KOffice include 
> commercial and other network users?  Or is it strictly for mum, dad and the
> kids?

I can't speak for all of KOffice, but my vision is quite extended.  Though I 
don't aim to reach this any time soon ;)
The plugin structure in KOffice is a testament to that, I expect companies to 
write custom plugins to make their business processes run smoother.  I used 
various usecases found in law offices in examples before.

Bottom line; my personal aim is to put the infrastructure in place for 
advanced stuff (mostly done) and then build on that to make KOffice for 
mum&dad and slowly expand into other markets.
Naturally infrastructure like paragraph/character styles and advanced 
numbering I already added in KWord2-alpha can be argued to already exceed the 
goal of mum&dad :-D

Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Zander

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