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OpenOffice.org: KDE Integration Project Launched

Posted by timothy on from the smoothing-the-edges dept.

vfs writes "Someone at pclinuxonline.com noticed that a OpenOffice/KDE Integration Project has been started to "provide tight (but optional) integration of the OpenOffice.org to the KDE environment beginning with KDE look and feel and ending with KDE data sources." This could offer a great opportunity for enterprises to deploy an integrated, unified desktop." (Here's the dot.kde.org post on the project.)

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  1. Qt? by Otter · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Details are sketchy -- obviously, since no code has been written except for the cuckooo kpart -- but:

    I wonder if they're planning to do a pure Qt interface, as seems to be suggested in some places, or a KDE one? From the Mac point of view, pure Qt means a native OS X interface! The native Mac KDE seems to have stalled (nothing on their mailing list for weeks) and would require extra libs even if it were made to work.

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    1. Re:Qt? by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I don't think you quite understand the point. OOo on Windows already has a perfectly good interface that looks pretty close to the native look and feel, uses the native save/load dialogs, and so on. OOo on MacOS X is currently an X11 application, and as such doesn't integrate at all - it uses X11 save/load dialogs, uses X11 grey menus attached to the windows instead of the Mac's unified screen-top menubar, uses X11 widgets, and so on.

      A build of OOo with a Qt option would therefore mean a lot to MacOS X users, since it would provide them with something that looked like a MacOS X application. Meanwhile, Windows users could continue to use their Windows-like build. They would lose nothing, and Mac users would gain a lot. What's the problem with that?

  2. Re:Yes, you are by vigilology · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Spot on. I'm trying to convince my father that Linux is the way to go for his work desktops, and it's rather hard when the OOo and Mozilla file dialogs do not contain that beautiful shortcut to the floppy disk. I've had to set up a link to /mnt/floppy in his home dir instead. Down with custom file dialogs! Hooray for KDE file dialogs!

  3. Re:Yes, you are by Feztaa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Down with custom file dialogs! Hooray for KDE file dialogs!

    Yeah, I love the KDE file dialog, it's awesome. Way better than the GTK2 one...

    Also, KDE's choice of focus models verse GNOME make KDE awesome (GNOME's focus model just gets worse and worse with every version).

  4. Re:KOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is interesting, as I use KOffice precisely because it is stable. More stable than either MS Office or Open Office. It also is nicely integrated into my desktop and is consequently very fast to load.