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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice website re-design
From:       Valerie <valerie_vk () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-05-16 17:41:44
Message-ID: 515440.4717.qm () web39608 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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Hey people, I've noticed that there isn't much of a product
vision anywhere around, but KOffice will need one for the ah... 
enthusiasm effect (hype).

Since I couldn't find one, I made one up myself. See if you
object:

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KOffice: The vision

The first question people ask about KOffice is: "Why have KOffice
when you already have OpenOffice? Why re-invent the wheel?"

That is actually a very good question. OpenOffice is an excellent
product, and a huge benefit to the open source community. It is
a quality open source alternative to the still most widely
used office suite, Microsoft Office, and offers compatibility 
to its files. Also, arguably, its existence has allowed the 
increasing support of an open standard: .odf.

Where OpenOffice aims to offer a suite comparable and
compatible with Microsoft Office though, KOffice aims to offer
a productivity suite without these references. It asks: could
the interface be more user-friendly? Could the features offered
be more complete? KOffice aims to offer a complete and
integrated suite designed and built from the ground up by the
open source community, for the open source community. Or rather, 
for everyone.

Already, it offers some key features:
- It is the most comprehensive suite available: it has
a word processor, a spreadsheet application, a presentation
program, a database program, a flowcharting application, a
vector drawing application, an image manipulation application,
a project management tool, a chart program, a formula program
And a program for generating quality business reports.
- And it manages this while being smaller and faster than
OpenOffice.
- Starting KOffice 2.0, the new Flake feature offers an
unprecedented amount of integration, by allowing you to call up
the tools of one application within another. You can call up
Krita's brushes in KWord. Or you can call up Karbon's vector
tools in KPresenter. All this allows the user a more complete
and seamless experience to productivity.
- Finally, KOffice 2.0 will offer full compliance with .odf,
its default format since KOffice 1.5. This will allow better
exchange with other applications.

This is just the start though, and while KOffice is developing
fast, it will need many contributors before it reaches its final
vision. Hopefully, it will be a difficult but fun journey,
calling upon all aspects of contributors: coders, GUI and 
feature proposers, web maintainers, (icon) artists, writers 
and the community at large, all of which may one day offer a 
product with a great unified experience.
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Oh by the way, does the "modular" aspect of Krita also extends
to the rest of KOffice? If it does, or if there are plans to,
I'll add that too.

Do point out though if there's anywhere I'm plain Wrong.


      
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