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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice 1.3.6?
From:       Laurent Montel <montel () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-03 13:43:48
Message-ID: 200503031443.48253.montel () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:48, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:18, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > On Monday 28 February 2005 21.43, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 February 2005 18.29, David Faure wrote:
> > > > The problem is that I don't know how much time we need for OASIS
> > > > support to be complete in order to switch to it as native file
> > > > format, and only then releasing.... Maybe a safer approach would be
> > > > to ship 1.4 with OASIS as an optional import/export option (like it
> > > > is now), but that goes a bit against what we promised for 1.4.
> > >
> > > I would like that a lot.
> > >
> > > OASIS support will take a lot of time to get right.  I think that
> > > KOffice 1.3 has a lot of issues that are fixed in HEAD, and these
> > > issues are keeping the users from liking KOffice. We need to keep the
> > > momentum going, to cite Boudewijn Rempt.  I think that we will lose a
> > > lot of mindshare and users if Open Office comes out with new releases
> > > all the time and we get stuck.People will start to think of KOffice as
> > > a dead project.
> > >
> > > Thus, I think that we should start planning for a release of version
> > > 1.4 *soon* with OASIS support as an option.  Then we can  release the
> > > complete OASIS based Koffice as 2.0 later.  In my opinion, OASIS is
> > > such a big milestone that I think that it actually warrants a 2.0
> > > stamp, and we need to come out with a new version promply.
> >
> > I am a bit surprised that there were no reactions to this other than
> > Raphaels piece.
>
> Sorry, I didn't know I was under time pressure to reply...
>
> Yes, this sounds good, I'm OK with a 1.4 with OASIS still as import/export.
>
> I need to find time to publish a schedule then

There is some problem.
Kpresenter have a lot of new feature which stored just into oasis file format
for example : custom presentation
Kspread too: for cell validation
kword copy/paste with oasis file format.

What do you do ?

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