From koffice-devel Thu Sep 20 23:42:00 2001 From: Jim Jensen Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:42:00 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Possible Addition to KOffice? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=100102983210635 Thanks very much for the observations. Do you have any suggestion other than my maintaining Kuery in sourceforge? If it's meaningful to consider including it somewhere in a KDE distribution, how would I go about it? On Thursday 20 September 2001 03:37 pm, David Faure wrote: > On Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 19:18, Jim Jensen wrote: > > Your suggestions make sense to me... At the same time, perhaps one might > > consider that a database query/reporting tool (which Kuery includes), is > > someting that at least some office staff would like to use from time to > > time--not perhaps as often as a word processor or spreadsheet, but > > possibly more often than a drawing or flowcharting tool. > > > > I kind of like the notion that KDE might extend the definition of an > > "Office Suite" beyond what the Evil Empire currently defines it to be. > > Feels *innovative* to me! > > I think the innovation in KDE is the other way round. > Even if we limit KOffice to applications that provide and embed > "documents", there is still room within KDE for all the rest that office > staff needs. Office staff needs mail (KMail), news (KNode), web-browsing > (Konqueror), etc., as well as database tools. > > The line is very easy to draw: if your reporting tool provides some sort of > embeddable report (based on KoDocument), then it's clearly for KOffice (be > it only in terms of library dependencies). If not, it can go anywhere else > in KDE, and this doesn't mean that it's not for office staff ;-) > > David. > _______________________________________________ > Koffice-devel mailing list > Koffice-devel@mail.kde.org > http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel