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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Collaborative editing / Versionning for koffice
From:       Matej Cepl <ceplm () seznam ! cz>
Date:       2006-06-03 3:04:57
Message-ID: qra7l3-7j6.ln1 () chelcicky ! vysocina
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Robert Knight wrote:
> glossed over.  Recent frustrations trying to use the KDE CD ripping
> program (I cannot remember its name) brought this to light only too
> well.  It offered complete control over every little detail and very
> detailed progress information, but getting the basic functionality out
> of it proved difficult.  By contrast the GNOME app (Sound Juicer) just
> required me to insert a CD and press one clearly labelled button,
> thereby satisfying the most important use case.

Even worse, this is an example of KDE application which tried to resolve
problem which was already resolved (audiocd:/ kio-slave in
konqueror/krusader or file manager of your choice beats hand down any
specialized ripping program IMHO).

> 2)  What collaborative features do the competition have - can we
> improve on them?

The example which is brutally useful I used and found really useful is
Workbook sharing in M$ Excel -- contrary to the KWord (or AbiWord -- see my
previous post) example where I really don't feel that it is that useful, I
was working with like five people entering data into huge Excel spreadsheet
shared on LAN and it really saved us a lot of time and work (because we
didn't have to maintain different versions of the spreadsheet).

Matej

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