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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Possible Addition to KOffice?
From:       Jim Jensen <res09vh4 () verizon ! net>
Date:       2001-09-20 23:42:00
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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.
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