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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Presenting KOffice 2.0
From:       "Alexandra Leisse" <alexandra () untangled ! biz>
Date:       2008-08-27 10:27:26
Message-ID: f46093a70808270327w1d2ea152vab6a8b99bce858cd () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org> 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
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