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Native KOffice for Mac OS X

Posted by michael on from the microsoft-office-not-good-enough-for-you dept.

bsharitt writes "A preliminary version of KOffice has been built natively on Mac OS X. It looks like a lot of the hard part is over, and now a lot of cleaning up and bug fixes stand between Mac OS X and a free full featured office suite." There's also a story on the dot.

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  1. OpenOffice.org by Valegor · · Score: 5, Informative

    There already is free full-featured office suite that runs on Mac OS X. Openoffice.org has run on Mac for a couple releases now. Having used both open office and Koffice(koffice on Linux, openoffice on Linux and Windows), I find openoffice to be more versatile. It is all a matter of opinion though

    1. Re:OpenOffice.org by geoffspear · · Score: 5, Informative

      Projected OS X native availability of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is currently Q1 2006. - from porting.openoffice.org. I'm not holding my breath.

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  2. I really expected OpenOffice.org to be first... by Fortunato_NC · · Score: 5, Informative

    But no, a version that requires you to load an X server doesn't count.

    Congratulations to everyone who's worked on this.

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  3. OSX Theme by IceFox · · Score: 5, Informative
    And the *really* important feature: The native OSX theme I got working the other day: here

    So even thought some of the other screenshots are in the ugly Motif theme they will soon be all re-taken using the OSX theme.

    Also notice how in the Dock the KDE applications icons show up (and scale wonderfully!). We have a script that generates OS X .app directories of the KDE applications and also generates those directories with the proper icons. You can see some of them in the background of the screenshot in Finder.

    -Benjamin Meyer

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  4. Re:I'm ignorant... by Boltronics · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenOffice on OSX has fallen behind. They are only up to 1.0.3, when other supported platforms are up to 1.1

    The installation process on the Mac is much harder than other platforms also. X11 (and a few other dependencies) are included in the download, making it a whopping 173MB! That's roughly 100MB more than Windows and GNU/Linux versions.

    I'm certain if KOffice was ported better than OpenOffice on OSX, it would be a more popular choice for those looking for a free office suite.

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  5. Re:OpenOffice.org (Aqua State Of The Port) by VValdo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not holding my breath.

    You might not need to. See The State of the Aqua Port 2004 message from developer Dan Williams.

    W

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