From koffice-devel Wed Aug 27 10:27:26 2008 From: "Alexandra Leisse" Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:27:26 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Presenting KOffice 2.0 Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=121983291603140 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Sebastian Sauer wrote: > 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 :) Thanks for the input. I'm still listening. ;-) In the meantime I'm working on a draft and let you know when I've got something to share. Alexandra _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel