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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Is kword ready ?
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-09-01 8:53:35
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What actually surprises me the most is that people who seem
to be able to write, are not capable of reading.

Posts like "it is alpha software", "some parts may be usefull,
but don't count on it" and "WOW, it compiles!"
 are numerous,
and still some people seem to conclude from this that koffice
is directly competing with MS Office.

And I don't get it. To get the sources, they at the very least
had to visit the koffice web site. And as far as I can recall,
it is stated very clearly there that this is a pre-alpha release.
Maybe those people just go to the download links.

Or they installed the koffice-rpm from their distribution. That
is also possible.
Maybe it would be an idea to ask distributors to include a 
warning message with their koffice apps. A shell script kword
which starts with a dialog: 
"KOffice is a suite in the very
 early stages of development. It 
 is not even alpha. Some apps
 may, or may not, work according 
 to expectations.
 Do you want to continue?"

But even then, I suppose, people still send complaints. 

Well, thats just my opinion. I think koffice is great already,
and will be even greater. I'm already learning python now, which
seems to be the koffice scripting language, and I'm eagerly
awaiting the fine goods of the koffice team.

With the very best regards,
Leon


dep wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Sébastien Major wrote:
> 
> |I just tested the "new" kde suite and specialy kword.
> |When some team develop, some asumption are made like
> |good compiling and graphic interface.
> |If you plan to install koffice suite and if you suppose
> |all the remaining is like kword, forget it.
> 
> what a very inspiring message. i am certain that all of the people
> who have been spending hundreds of hours of their own time writing
> this very ambitious suite for you to use will now feel very much like
> keeping at it when they could be doing something else instead.
> 
> i'm sure that you can get your money back, though, every dollar that
> you paid for koffice.
> 
> in fact, we should each of us each and every day be thankful that
> there are people like kde.org and the koffice team, who without
> exception do great work. as you maybe do not know, koffice is not
> claimed in any way to be ready for general production use or even for
> casual use. some things work. some don't.
> 
> it's really unfair to post a note like the one you posted, i think.
> perhaps it was a matter of translation, but it seemed really nasty.
> and unwarranted.
> 
> --
> dep__________________________________________________________________
>                 2000 is a number that breaks computers.
>                 01-01-01 is when the millennium begins.

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What are video games so much better      Leon Widdershoven
designed than office software? Because   l.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de
people who design video games love to    Institute of Plasma Physics
play video games. People who design      Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
office software look forward to doing 
something else at the weekend.

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