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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Negative review of koffice..
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-04-18 17:48:56
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin Konold wrote:
>
> [snip ]
>
> > To me it looked like GNUMERIC is FAR behind kspread. I neither can
> > neither
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > KOffice is the much more advanced technology and KOffice is much more
>
> [ snip ]
>
> This attitude isn't going to help you guys. I am very impressed
> with KOffice, but you'd do well to learn from what the Gnome guys are
> doing instead of touting your superiority.
>
> I suggest you read the slashdot interview with Miguel and see what he says
> about Gnome-print. ( there's a part where I state the "WYSIWYG typography
> problem very clearly and he explains Gnome's approach to solving it )
>
> UNIX has a fundamental problem with display/print unification, and naively
> expecting Qt to solve the problems for you isn't going to cut it.
>
> I posted questions about this on this very list and I must say I was
> surprised by the fact that noone appears to have given any serious thought
> to addressing the fact that UNIX cannot do "WYSIWYG typography", while the
> GNOME camp not only have thought about it, but are actually doing
> something.

And why don't YOU do anything about it then? Just complaining doesn't help 
either.

-- 
Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)

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