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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Koffice-specific Font / koffice.org / windows downloads
From:       Thomas_Hümmer <jossele () 5sl ! org>
Date:       2009-09-15 13:43:23
Message-ID: 4AAF99FB.1080000 () 5sl ! org
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Hello KOffice Team,


(First of all: I love your great work. Im a big fan of koffice an 
watching the development closely.)

Koffice-specific Font
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I am a owner of a big German Web Statistics provider 
(http://flashcounter.com) . I working on a satistic that analyse he 
adoption of Office Suites. To do so I analyse the Fonts (via 
CSS/JS-Tricks) installed on users computers. Most of the Office Suites 
have characteristic fonts, they install with them (e.g. "OpenSmybol" for 
OpenOffice and derivatives). Therefore i can determine if a specific 
Office Suite is installed by measuring them (with relatively small error 
range).
It took me a long time to figure out the corret fonts for a number of 
office suites.
For KOffice I figured out "Arev Sans" and "cmex10" but the latter is 
included in some other applications and the disribution is 5 times 
higher than the former.

Do you think I can use "Arev Sans" as a predictable candidate? Since 
when is it included in Koffice. I did not find other significant proucts 
shipping it.

Thank you for your help. I think you could be interested in the numbers.



Koffice.org links
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While looking for Koffice information i was a bit disappointed on 
koffice.org (althoug the new blog is awesome), because i hal to consult 
google several times to find the koffice wiki, because I knew it existed 
but could not find a link on your site.
Could you put a link to the wiki on the page? As well as to the 
Mailinglist (+ Archives on Nabble), the IRC, the bugzilla. I think the 
Koffice related Information is very scattered across different sites - 
so you need at least links from the central place koffice.org


Windows Downloads
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In my opinion you could get a very large userbase by providing a simple 
installer for windows without using the koffice installer. Nobody but 
geeks (like me:) would install an office suite in such a complicate way. 
Windows still has a >95% market share, so you will loose a large 
userbase (and developerbase!) if you don't provide an easy way for 
people to try the software. I think you already had the idea, but please 
make it high priority.
Especially when you'll get broad news coverage with Koffice 2.1, you 
should provide the users an easy solution (BIG DOWNLOADBUTTON :) or 
you'll miss a big oppertunity.


Greetings,
Thomas Hümmer
flashcounter.com

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