[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]
List: koffice-devel
Subject: First Draft of KOffice RC1 Press Release
From: Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date: 2001-07-28 3:36:37
[Download RAW message or body]
Hi,
Here is a first draft of the KOffice RC1 announcement. At this time
only SuSE and Mandrake packages are available, and only changelogs for
kdelibs and kword are available. Since the dot will be down until at
least Monday, I suggest we wait until then to announce this (weekends
aren't so great anyway). But I hope we can get some more packages and
changelogs before then. I am told Debian at least will be a week due to
the Debian packager having been on vacation and now dealing with brush
fires which started in his absence.
Thanks for your attention,
Dre
["releasev1.html" (text/html)]
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>KOffice Suite Release Candidate Available for Linux/Unix</TITLE>
<META NAME="version" CONTENT="1">
<META NAME="revised" CONTENT="July 27, 2001 23:12 (EST)">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>DATELINE JULY 30, 2001</P>
<P>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</P>
<H3 ALIGN="center">KOffice Suite Release Candidate Available for Linux/Unix</H3>
<P><STRONG>KDE, the Leading Linux Desktop, Ships First Release Candidate of KOffice \
Suite</STRONG></P> <P>July 30, 2001 (The INTERNET).
The <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE
Project</A> today announced the release of
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/">KOffice</A> 1.1RC1.
KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE which utilizes open
standards for component communication and component embedding.
The primary goals of this release, which follows one month after the release
of KOffice 1.1beta3, are to provide a preview of KOffice 1.1 and
to involve users and developers who wish to request/implement missing
features or identify problems.
Code development is currently focused on stabilizing KOffice 1.1,
<A HREF="http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/koffice-1.1-release-plan.html">scheduled</A>
for final release in mid-August, 2001.
</P>
<P>
Though this release is a release candidate, it constitutes the most stable and
feature-complete release of KOffice to date. The KOffice team encourages
all users of earlier KOffice releases to upgrade to KOffice 1.1RC1.
In particular, this release is substantially more stable and
feature-complete than KOffice 1.0, which was released together with KDE 2.0
in October 2000. Changes to individual KOffice components since the last
beta release are <A HREF="#changelog">enumerated below</A>. In addition
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.1rc1-release.phtml">Release
Notes</A>, a
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.1.phtml">list of
changes</A> since the KOffice 1.0 release, and a
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/faq/">KOffice FAQ</A>, are
available at the <A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/">KOffice website</A>.
</P>
<P>
This release includes the following components:
KWord (a frame-based, full-featured word processor);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/">KPresenter</A>
(a presentation application);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kspread/">KSpread</A>
(a spreadsheet application);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kontour/">Kontour</A>
(a vector-drawing application f/k/a KIllustrator);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/krayon/">Krayon</A>
(a bitmap image editor f/k/a KImageShop);
<A HREF="http://www.thekompany.com/projects/kivio/">Kivio</A>
(a flowchart application);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kchart/">KChart</A>
(a chart drawing application);
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kformula/">KFormula</A>
(a formula editor);
<A HREF="http://www.thekompany.com/projects/kugar/">Kugar</A>
(a tool for generating business quality reports); and
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/filters/">filters</A>
(for importing/exporting documents).
</P>
<P>
The most significant improvements since the last beta release occurred in
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kword/">KWord</A>,
which added support for Asian languages (XIM), drop'n'paste of images and
copy/paste of tables, and which gained many improvements, particularly
in the auto-sizing and auto-scrolling features.
For a further list of improvements to KOffice since the last beta release,
please refer to the <A HREF="#changelog">incremental changelog</A> below.
</P>
<P>
KOffice and all its components are available for free under
Open Source licenses from the KDE
<A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/">server</A>
and its <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">mirrors</A>.
As a result of the dedicated efforts of hundreds of translators,
KOffice 1.1RC1 is available in
<A HREF="http://i18n.kde.org/teams/distributed.html">28</A>
languages</A>.
</P>
<P>
<A NAME="changelog"></A><H4>Incremental Changelog</H4>
</P>
<P>
The following are the major improvements, enhancements and fixes since the
KOffice-1.1beta3 release last month:
<UL>
<LI><EM><STRONG>All suite applications (KOffice libs)</STRONG></EM></LI>
<UL>
<LI><EM>New Features and Improvements</EM>:</LI>
<UL>
<LI>added a submenu for selecting a type of embedded document to insert;</LI>
<LI>improved useability of template creation dialog;</LI>
<LI>improved template names to permit special characters, like '(';</LI>
<LI>improved the select-color actions with color palette;</LI>
<LI>improved the WMF-loader to parse the DPI of WMF files; and</LI>
<LI>replaced the filters' embedded dialog into the file chooser with normal dialogs; \
and</LI> </UL>
<LI><EM>Bug Fixes</EM>:</LI>
<UL>
<LI>fixed the automatic naming of DCOP interfaces;</LI>
<LI>fixed the recent files list (some ways of opening documents didn't add to that \
list);</LI> <LI>fixed the autosave feature to only save if the document was changed \
since the last autosave;</LI> <LI>fixed "Configure keys" to list all the available \
actions; and</LI> <LI>fixed problems with embedded documents and zooming.</LI>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI><EM><STRONG>KWord</STRONG></EM></LI>
<UL>
<LI><EM>New Features</EM>:</LI>
<UL>
<LI>added XIM support (for Asian languages);</LI>
<LI>added save/restore UI settings (formatting characters, frame borders, zoom);</LI>
<LI>added non-modal "insert special character" dialog;</LI>
<LI>added "keep aspect ratio" option when inserting/resizing images;</LI>
<LI>added support for dropping and pasting images;</LI>
<LI>added an Insert Object submenu;</LI>
<LI>added frame dialog for headers and footers;</LI>
<LI>enabled changing the charset for selected characters (helps non-AA displays and \
when printing);</LI> <LI>enabled disabling the grid by pressing shift while \
moving/resizing a frame; and</LI> <LI>implemented copy/paste of tables;</LI>
</UL>
<LI><EM>Improvements</EM>:</LI>
<UL>
<LI>improved paragraph borders to span the entire frame/page width;</LI>
<LI>improved auto-resizing when inserting very large images;</LI>
<LI>improved auto-scrolling (also applies when moving a frame, etc.);</LI>
<LI>improved cell auto-sizing in tables;</LI>
<LI>improved preview in style dialog;</LI>
<LI>improved calculation of floating tables size and placement;</LI>
<LI>optimized speed when typing;</LI>
<LI>revised class design for future code sharing with other KOffice applications; \
and</LI> <LI>made coordinates relative to page corner in frame dialog; and</LI>
</UL>
<LI><EM>Bug fixes</EM>:</LI>
<UL>
<LI>fixed text-flow bugs;</LI>
<LI>fixed frame selection in case of overlapping frames;</LI>
<LI>fixed many undo/redo bugs (especially for tables) and grouping of commands;</LI>
<LI>fixed inline items in headers/footers/copied frames;</LI>
<LI>fixed copying frames (with inline frames);</LI>
<LI>fixed table of content (regeneration and page numbers);</LI>
<LI>fixed typographical quotes (never triggered in beta3);</LI>
<LI>fixed undo/redo when applying a new format to a variable, and when pasting text \
with inline items;</LI> <LI>fixed loading of multi-columns documents, and loading of \
cliparts;</LI> <LI>fixed saving of copied frames; and</LI>
<LI>fixed KPart objects, zooming, and preview mode.</LI>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI><EM><STRONG>KPresenter</STRONG></EM></LI>
<UL>
TO COME
</UL>
<LI><EM><STRONG>KSpread</STRONG></EM></LI>
<UL>
TO COME
</UL>
</UL>
</P>
<P>
For a list of major changes since the KOffice 1.0 release last October, please
visit the
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.1.phtml">KOffice
website</A>.
</P>
<P>
<H4>Downloading and Compiling KOffice</H4>
</P>
<P>
<A NAME="Source_Code"></A><EM>Source Packages</EM>.
The source packages for KOffice 1.1RC1 are available for free download at
<A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/src/">http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/src/</A> \
or in the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">mirrors</A>.
</P>
<P>
<A NAME="Source_Code-Library_Requirements"></A><EM>Library Requirements.</EM>
KOffice 1.1rc1 requires qt-x11-2.2.4 or greater, which is available from
<A HREF="http://www.trolltech.com/">Trolltech</A> at
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/">ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/</A>
under the name <A HREF="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-2.2.4.tar.gz">qt-x11-2.2.4.tar.gz</A>, \
although <A HREF="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/pub/qt/source/qt-x11-2.3.1.tar.gz">qt-x11-2.3.1</A>
is recommended, as well as kdesupport-2.1.x and kdelibs-2.1.2
(kdelibs-2.1.1 will work but will cause some crashes and anti-aliased
font problems), which are available from the KDE ftp servers at
<A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/">http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/</A>
and <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.2/distribution/">http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.2/distribution/</A>
(<EM>see also</EM> the
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.1.html">KDE 2.1.1
press release</A> and the
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.2.html">KDE 2.1.2
press release</A> for more information). However, KDE 2.2beta1, available at
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/unstable/2.2beta1/">http://www.kde.org/unstable/2.2beta1/</A>,
is recommended, as it provides a few additional features, such as improved
printing support (kdeprint), a scanner plugin, and an improved file selector.
KOffice 1.1rc1 will not work with versions of Qt older than 2.2.4 or
versions of kdelibs older than 2.1.x.
</P>
<P>
<EM>Compiler Requirements</EM>. Please note that some components of
KOffice 1.1RC1 (the Quattro Pro<SUP>®</SUP> import filter and the new
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/kchart/">KChart</A>) will not
compile with older versions of <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/">gcc/egcs</A>,
such as egcs-1.1.2 or gcc-2.7.2. At a minimum gcc-2.95-* is required.
</P>
<P>
<EM>Further Instructions</EM>.
For further instructions on compiling and installing KOffice, please consult
the <A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/install-source.phtml">installation
instructions</A>.
</P>
<P>
<H4>Installing Binary Packages</H4>
</P>
<P>
<EM>Binary Packages</EM>.
Some distributors choose to provide binary packages of KOffice for certain
versions of their distribution. Some of these binary packages for
KOffice 1.1RC1 will be available for free download under
<A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/">http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/</A>
or under the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">mirrors</A>. Please note that the
KDE team is not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third
parties -- typically, but not always, the distributor of the relevant
distribution (if you cannot find a binary package for your distribution,
please read the <A HREF="http://dot.kde.org/986933826/">KDE Binary Package
Policy</A>).
<P>
<EM>Library Requirements</EM>.
The library requirements for a particular binary package varies with the
system on which the package was compiled. Please bear in mind that
some binary packages may require a newer version of Qt and/or KDE
than was distributed with the distribution version for which the binary
package is listed below. For general library requirements for KOffice,
please see the text at <A HREF="#Source_Code-Library_Requirements">Source Code -
Library Requirements</A>.
</P>
<P>
<EM>Package Locations</EM>.
At the time of this release, pre-compiled packages are available for:
</P>
<P>
<UL>
<!-- DEBIAN STATUS UNKNOWN
<LI><A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</A> (package "koffice"):</LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.debian.org/">ftp.debian.org</A>: sid (devel)</LI>
<LI><A HREF="ftp://kde.debian.net/">kde.debian.net</A>: potato (2.2)</LI>
</UL>
-->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/">Linux Mandrake</A> (<A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/README">README</A>): <UL>
<LI>Cooker: <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/cooker/i586/">i586</A> \
and <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/cooker/ia64/">ia64</A></LI> \
<LI>8.0: for kdelibs 2.1.2, <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/8.0/i586/kde-2.1.2">i586</A> \
and <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/8.0/ppc/">PPC</A>; \
for kdelibs 2.2beta1, <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Mandrake/8.0/i586/kde-2.2beta1">i586</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE Linux</A> (<A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/README">README</A> - requires \
Qt-2.3.x, kdesupport 2.1.1 and kdelibs 2.1.2): <UL>
<LI>7.2: <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/i386/7.2/">i386</A> \
and <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/ia64/7.2/">IA64</A>; \
please see the <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/noarch/">noarch</A> \
directory for common files</LI> <LI>7.1: <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/i386/7.1/">i386</A>, <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/ppc/7.1/">PPC</A> and <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/sparc/7.1/">Sparc</A>; please \
see the <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/noarch/">noarch</A> \
directory for common files</LI> <LI>7.0: <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/i386/7.0/">i386</A>, <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/ppc/7.0/">PPC</A> and <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/s390/7.0/">S390</A>; please \
see the <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/noarch/">noarch</A> \
directory for common files</LI> <LI>6.4: <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/i386/6.4/>i386</A>; please see \
the <A HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/SuSE/noarch/">noarch</A> \
directory for common files</LI> </UL>
<!-- Tru64 not ready yet
<LI>Tru64 Systems: <A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Tru64/">4.0e,f,g, or 5.x</A> (<A \
HREF="http://ftp.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.1-rc1/Tru64/README.Tru64">README</A>)</LI>
-->
</UL>
</P>
Please check the servers periodically for pre-compiled packages for other
distributions. More binary packages may become available over the
coming days and weeks.
</P>
<P>
<H4>About KOffice/KDE</H4>
</P>
<P>
KOffice is part of the KDE project.
KDE is an independent, collaborative project by hundreds of developers
worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment
employing a component-based, network-transparent architecture.
KDE is working proof of the power of the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software
development model to create first-rate technologies on par with
and superior to even the most complex commercial software.
</P>
<P>
For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/">web site</A>.
For more information about KOffice, please visit KOffice's
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/info/">web site</A> where you can find,
among other things, information on
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/getinvolved/">contributing to KOffice</A>.
</P>
<P>
<H4>Corporate KOffice Sponsors</H4>
</P>
<P>
Besides the valuable and excellent efforts by the
<A HREF="http://www.koffice.org/developers.phtml">KOffice developers</A>
themselves, significant support for KOffice development has been provided by
<A HREF="http://www.mandrakesoft.com/">MandrakeSoft</A> (which sponsors
KOffice developers <A HREF="http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/">David
Faure</A> and Laurent Montel),
<A HREF="http://www.thekompany.com/">theKompany.com</A> (which
contributed Kivio and Kugar to KOffice),
and
<A HREF="http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/">Klarälvdalens
Datakonsult AB</A> (which contributed the new KChart to KOffice). Thanks!
</P>
<HR NOSHADE SIZE=1 WIDTH="90%" ALIGN="center">
<FONT SIZE=2>
<EM>Trademarks Notices.</EM>
KDE, K Desktop Environment, KChart, KFormula, Kontour, KOffice,
KPresenter, Krayon, KSpread and KWord are trademarks of KDE e.V.
Kivio and Kugar are trademarks of thekompany.com.
<!--Adobe Illustrator is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
Incorporated.-->
Quattro Pro is a registered trademark of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation \
Limited. <!--MS WinWord 97 and MS Excel are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.-->
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Trolltech and Qt are trademarks of Trolltech AS.
All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are
the property of their respective owners.
<BR>
<HR NOSHADE SIZE=1 WIDTH="90%" ALIGN="center">
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=8 CELLSPACING=0>
<TR><TH COLSPAN=2 ALIGN="left">
Press Contacts:
</TH></TR>
<TR VALIGN="top"><TD ALIGN="right" NOWRAP>
United States:
</TD><TD NOWRAP>
Kurt Granroth<BR>
granroth@kde.org<BR>
(1) 480 732 1752<BR> <BR>
Andreas Pour<BR>
pour@kde.org<BR>
(1) 917 312 3122
</TD></TR>
<TR VALIGN="top"><TD ALIGN="right" NOWRAP>
Europe (French and English):
</TD><TD NOWRAP>
David Faure<BR>
faure@kde.org<BR>
(44) 1225 837409
</TD></TR>
<TR VALIGN="top"><TD ALIGN="right" NOWRAP>
Europe (English and German):
</TD><TD NOWRAP>
Martin Konold<BR>
konold@kde.org<BR>
(49) 179 2252249
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
_______________________________________________
Koffice-devel mailing list
Koffice-devel@master.kde.org
http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]
Configure |
About |
News |
Add a list |
Sponsored by KoreLogic