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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: PR and the release of KOffice 1.4 (beta)
From:       Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-04-27 20:56:21
Message-ID: 33a85067050427135664526cb5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I think it'd be good if prospective users such as myself had a clear
understanding of how to integrate the programs in KOffice. I've got a
spreadsheet where I manually enter data, a template for Kugar reports,
and a database sitting on some far away server with all my info... how
do I a) generate a spreadsheet from the database so I can free-hand
play with the data, b) take data from either my spreadsheet or my
database and generate a report, etc. For that matter, what's all this
stuff about report generation? Integration is a nebulous idea for most
people. It sounds great, but how do I make it work for me? If it's too
involved, the average user isn't going to bother, especially if they
find bugs that get in the way of doing their work.


On 4/27/05, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:07, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > Fellow KOfficers,
> >
> > It is with some hesitation that I write this mail...
> >
> > What we have in front of us is the release of the most comprehensive free
> > office suite in existence. It might not be the best if you look at it and
> > compare it to the other office suites component by component. Let's be
> > honest with ourselves here; for instance both Gnumeric and  Oocalc is
> > better than KSpread and KWord is not as good as neither Abiword nor
> > Oowriter.
> 
> But it needn't stay that way... With frequent releases and a good splash of
> 
> publicity, we might be able to attract people. One of the important things 
> about KOffice is that it does not depend on Sun Java as OO 2.0 will. KOffice
> 
> is truly free.
> 
> > What we do have, however, is a more comprehensive suite than any other.
> > Abiword and Gnumeric might be very good, but the concept of Gnome office
> is
> > a joke (and you Gnome people who are snooping here would do good to be
> > honest with yourself as well. :-) ). And the much heralded Open Office
> > doesn't have a counterpart to neither Kexi, Kivio, Karbon nor Krita.
> 
> Karbon is one of those might-have-been applications. It could have had 
> Sodipodi's and Inkscape's place, it was earlier and was better for a time.
> It 
> really needs features, and apart from features, integration with Krita as 
> regards to dockers and things.
> 
> <...>
> 
> > 2. We must concentrate to fix the most important bugs that are left.
> These
> > are the ones that users will encounter the most often, the ones that
> > prevent them from doing their work. This is our main task from now and 3
> > weeks into the future.
> 
> What we need, in fact, is a team of testing users. A bit like the usability
> 
> website that does those sterling reviews, but without the emphasis on what 
> could we do instead, but with emphasis on what breaks, what's inconsistent,
> 
> what's unimplemented.
> 
> > Remember: People *will* check out KOffice and see if it is a worthy
> > contender. Journalists *will* write reviews in the papers and people
> *will*
> > read these and get their opinions from them.
> 
> The trick is to feed a large number of publications a really good press 
> release, one that's almost a finished article, I guess. From reading what 
> Paul Graham recently had to say on the subject.
> 
> > Developers! *Please* concentrate on the most important bugs right now.
> 
> Sorry... (Orthodox) Easter is coming and after that I'll be on holiday in 
> Greece (planned when the original plan was to have the release done near the
> 
> beginning of April).
> 
> -- 
> Boudewijn Rempt 
> http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
> 
> 

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-NKO-
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