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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice frozen for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-04-13 13:49:18
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At 03:54 AM 4/13/2001, you wrote:
>As of yesterday :), the koffice module is half-frozen: no new features to
>be checked in, bugfixes commits only.
>The plan is to package it as koffice-1.1-beta1 on Wednesday 18.
>
>Below is a summary of the release schedule available at
>http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/koffice-1.1-release-plan.html
>
>-----------------------------------
>
>KOffice 1.1 Release Plan
>
>The following is the outline for our KOffice 1.1 release schedule.
>The 1.1 release will come with major improvements in the following areas:
>
>- Many features added to KSpread and KPresenter
>- Improve speed and usability of KIllustrator
>- Rewrite of KWord, now using Qt's richtext engine
>- Much improved mathematical formula support
>- Addition of Kivio (Flowcharting program)
>- Addition of Kugar (Database report creation)
>- Many new filters: Applixware import, Abiword import, RTF, Docbook export,
>LaTeX export, etc.
>- Improvements to the existing filters, especially the MSOffice import filters
>
>KOffice 1.1 will be released independently from KDE 2.2.
>
>KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
>=============
>
>Thursday April 12
>
>KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only.
>
>Wednesday April 18
>
>Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
>  They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of
>binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again.
>
>Monday April 23
>
>Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 1.
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>Frequently Asked Questions
>
>Which version of Qt is required ?
>
>Qt 2.2.4 or later
>
>Which version of kdelibs is required ?
>
>kdelibs 2.1.2 will be required by the final KOffice 1.1.
>
>kdelibs 2.1 and 2.1.1 will work too, but lead to bugs when using the font
>anti-aliasing, and to crashes when splitting views. You've been warned :)
>
>Using kdelibs-2.2-beta when compiling koffice gives access to a few
>additional features, such as improved printing support (kdeprint) and a
>scanner plugin. This is not required.
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
>Still to be determined :
>
>* should Krayon be part of KOffice-1.1 ?
>Any Krayon developer around ? :)
>
>* is there any plans for an application which creates the XML templates
>used by Kugar ? As it is now, this application isn't very user friendly (IMHO)

Well this is something that we would hope someone would jump in on and help 
with, we don't have the man power right now to do it, but so far no one has 
bitten.  Maybe next time a new developer wants to join we could steer him 
that way.

>--
>David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
>http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
>KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

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