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List:       koffice
Subject:    RE: The road ahead
From:       Gerke Kok <gerke.kok () tpa-nl ! com>
Date:       2001-07-26 7:26:44
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I fully agree with the database thing. We need one. This is actualy why we
lost WordPerfect... It did not have a serious database...
Please stay friendly on the theKompany side of things. They have been doing
a lot of work for the Koffice project.
Keep up the good work!
wkr,
Gerke Kok

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Nate Murphy [mailto:natemurphy333@yahoo.com]
Verzonden: maandag 23 juli 2001 4:28
Aan: Koffice-devel@master.kde.org
Onderwerp: The road ahead


The time has almost come for the release of KOffice
1.1  Has anyone started to consider what lies ahead? 
Are we on the road to KOffice 1.2 or 2.0 or 3.0?  I
assume that the next major goal is the incorporation
of Qt 3.0 and associated capabilities.  Do we have any
other ideas.  I have read that there is interest in
adding a Opera style interface to Konqueror when we
browsing.  Krayon and Kontour should also be high on
the list for attention given the massive work done to
KWord and KPresenter (though they should never be
without help either).  I think we need to determine
who is interested in maintaining and developing Kivio
now that theKompany is looking for do an internal fork
in the code to sell it as a retail project.  Also I
see from S.G.'s interview on Slashdot that they will
be moving Quanta Plus to Quanta Gold and turning it
into a retail project.  There was a response on the
Dot by one of Q. Plus's three developers that he was
against that idea and intends to continue development
and financial support of Quanta in the future.  I
really think the KOffice teams should get on board
with that.  Quanta is a great program for Web
development and PHP work and I hate to see a GPL
project become non-GPL.  I respect theKompany greatly
for their contributions but am concerned by some
recent decisions with Kivio and especially Quanta. 
Could be extend to Quanta what was given to Kugar and
other tools and make it apart of the next KOffice
release - it is very near ready to go as is and has at
least one interested maintainer.  How about KMyMoney2?
 A financial program would be a great addition to the
office suite and be one of the final components
lacking from the project.  We are looking to gain
critical mass and hit a convergence point where
someone can look at the Linux desktop and see all the
primary applications they desire there.  Quanta as a
response to Frontpage and KMyMoney2 as a response to
MS Money and Quicken would be right there in such a
goal.  Finally, besides needing to learn how to make
paragraphs I'd like to add one more suggestion - a
database.  reKall is in development by the guys at
theKompany but who knows if it'll actually be given to
KOffice, and if it will be somewhat abandoned like
Kivio.  That's the last piece of the puzzle.  I
believe that those three components, one almost done
(Quanta), one well into development (KMyMoney2), and
one serious opportunity in a database could lay aside
all doubt that the Linux desktop and applications base
is ready the roll and KDE and KOffice will be the
solutions to provide such a future.

Please respond to this, flame me, write some trolls,
back, defend my remarks about theKompany, and really
get some fire under this.  I'm a newbie C++ programer,
but I have quite a bit of experience in leading
development projects, bug testing and the like and
I'll gladly get my hands dirty clear up to the
shoulder to see this type of stuff develop.  Anyone
interested?

Cheers.

Nate

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