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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Presenting KOffice 2.0
From:       Sebastian Sauer <mail () dipe ! org>
Date:       2008-08-26 23:42:06
Message-ID: 200808270142.07039.mail () dipe ! org
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On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2008, Alexandra Leisse wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 August 2008, Alexandra Leisse wrote:
> > > Here are some random thoughts on the subject:
> > >
> > > * 1.6 vs 2.0 vs 2.x:
> > > Like for KDE 4.0 and KDE 4, we have the issue of making people
> > > understand that 2.0 is just the begining of the KOffice 2 serie. Unlike
> > > KDE4.0 vs KDE3.5, I don't think we have major regression between
> > > KOffice 2.0 vs KOffice 1.6 (most features that aren't in 2.0 were
> > > broken in 1.6), only two applications are going to miss the release:
> > > Kivio and Kexi. That said 2.0 is going to miss some higly demanded
> > > features (I am thinking about tables in kword, for instance).
> >
> > I think we did learn from the 4.0 release which didn't head off too
> > nicely marketing-wise. So stressing the new technologies will make
> > sense and so does focusing on roadmaps. So... we should talk about
> > what is there and what is soon to be expected instead of pointing to
> > the missing features.
> >
> > What comes to my mind first is: What makes KOffice stand out from the
> > crowd? Why should anybody choose this office suite instead of another?
>
> Lets answer that:
> - lightweight
> - fast
> - KDE integration
> - consistency
> - the most comprehensive Office Suite in Existence, the fact that KOffice
> includes productivity applications (KWord, KSpread, KPresenter
> (kexi,Kivio)), creativity applications (Krita, Karbon) and management
> (KPlato) is a strong selling point
>
> Anyone else things about something else ?

* full ODF-compatibility (we are not there but it's the target and we are 
doing great progress here)
* clean sourcecode (think here of khtml/webkit vs gecko) what means; easy to 
maintain, easy to extend, easy to tailor to specific use-cases (that's the 
result of the component-architecture Thomas named plus all of the amount of 
work done to share just as much code as possible)
* lot of goodies no other office suite provides (full ODF support with a 
ODF-lib for reuse, flakes and plugins for every aspect, scripting in a 
bunches of languages include Ruby and JavaScript, Krita's color-managment - 
the pigment lib - supported by all KOffice-apps, ...)
* 2.0 is only the beginning :)
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