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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Good review in November Linux Magazine
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2005-10-14 10:35:09
Message-ID: 200510141235.09519.boud () valdyas ! org
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The November issue of Linux Magazine has a pretty good and extensive review of 
KOffice 1.4 by Marcel Hilzinger. He basically starts by saying that if you do 
lots of document exchange with MS-users that KOffice is not for you, and 
having gotten over that does quite an in-depth review of much of KOffice. 

He likes Krita, KSpread, KPresenter, KWord, Karbon and KChart a lot. I don't 
know how he managed, but Krita didn't crash for him :-).

His main points of criticism are:

* OpenDocument not yet perfect (but he doesn't whine about that, just notes 
that it's work in progress)
* The bullet dropdown toolbutton in KWord is not useful: he thinks that just 
defining a bullet style for a document and a single enable bullet action 
would enough.
* Apparently, mail merge from an external datasource was boken
* KWord doesn't place a dot after numbers in numbered lists
* KPresenter should be able to generate handouts from presentations
* Kugar is weird, badly integrated and practically unusable -- he suggests we 
thing about whether we want to keep Kugar.
* Kexi is not integrated into KOffice at all -- it cannot be a datasource for 
mail merge, for instance, the form editor is impractical and so on: he 
ascribes this to teething troubles.
* Krita doesn't have cmyk and Karbon's dockers aren't as nice as Krita's -- 
well those issues are fixed now :-).


It may be worth it writing a letter to the magazine pointing out the amazing 
progress we've already made in addressing his issues -- maybe they'll print 
it. Shall I prepare one?

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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