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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice frozen for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-04-13 15:18:21
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One question.  Is there an icon for koshell yet?  It would be really nice 
to have the new release of KOffice have an icon.

At 03:54 AM 4/13/2001, David Faure wrote:
>As of yesterday :), the koffice module is half-frozen: no new features to
>be checked in, bugfixes commits only.
>The plan is to package it as koffice-1.1-beta1 on Wednesday 18.
>
>Below is a summary of the release schedule available at
>http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/koffice-1.1-release-plan.html
>
>-----------------------------------
>
>KOffice 1.1 Release Plan
>
>The following is the outline for our KOffice 1.1 release schedule.
>The 1.1 release will come with major improvements in the following areas:
>
>- Many features added to KSpread and KPresenter
>- Improve speed and usability of KIllustrator
>- Rewrite of KWord, now using Qt's richtext engine
>- Much improved mathematical formula support
>- Addition of Kivio (Flowcharting program)
>- Addition of Kugar (Database report creation)
>- Many new filters: Applixware import, Abiword import, RTF, Docbook export,
>LaTeX export, etc.
>- Improvements to the existing filters, especially the MSOffice import filters
>
>KOffice 1.1 will be released independently from KDE 2.2.
>
>KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
>=============
>
>Thursday April 12
>
>KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only.
>
>Wednesday April 18
>
>Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
>  They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of
>binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again.
>
>Monday April 23
>
>Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 1.
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>Frequently Asked Questions
>
>Which version of Qt is required ?
>
>Qt 2.2.4 or later
>
>Which version of kdelibs is required ?
>
>kdelibs 2.1.2 will be required by the final KOffice 1.1.
>
>kdelibs 2.1 and 2.1.1 will work too, but lead to bugs when using the font
>anti-aliasing, and to crashes when splitting views. You've been warned :)
>
>Using kdelibs-2.2-beta when compiling koffice gives access to a few
>additional features, such as improved printing support (kdeprint) and a
>scanner plugin. This is not required.
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
>Still to be determined :
>
>* should Krayon be part of KOffice-1.1 ?
>Any Krayon developer around ? :)
>
>* is there any plans for an application which creates the XML templates
>used by Kugar ? As it is now, this application isn't very user friendly (IMHO)
>
>--
>David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
>http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
>KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

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