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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Good review in November Linux Magazine
From:       kent () mslinux ! com
Date:       2005-10-14 10:32:16
Message-ID: 20051014033216.vl26j5dodufkcggw () webmail ! aresnetwork ! com
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I love it when reviews are being honest so we can take what they said are
missing or bad, then we come back to fix and make them better.  Through these
constant feedback loops, we'll be able to improve KOffice in leaps and 
bounds. Yup, this essentially comes down to being honest.

Thanks!

Quoting Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org>:

> 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
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