KOffice 1.4 Released

An anonymous reader writes "The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.4 for Linux and Unix operating systems. This release is a large step towards embracing the OASIS OpenDocument file format which has become an approved standard for office file formats. This format is also used by the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0, thus providing high interoperability. New applications in the 1.4 release: Krita - a pixel based image manipulation application (screenshots, movie) and Kexi - an integrated data management application (screenshots)."

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I thought so, too.

[imsabbel]

Until i read (and verified) that just about nobody outside sun does anything for openoffice.
Of the core group, only 4 are not sun employees, so there is nothing like e.g. the kernel or kde.

Krita...

[Jugalator]

Krita is swedish for "chalk"... Maybe more languages too, I don't know.
It's probably behind the name anyway.

Re:Expect More Interest

[JabberWokky]

However, it's not as if the FLOSS community is hunky-dory about Qt; see the old Harmony project for more on that.

That was before Qt was GPLed. It's now completely Free Software (with caps). When Qt 4.0 is released, rumor has it that the Windows version will be GPLed as well.

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Evan

Re:MS Office

[JabberWokky]

Interestingly, KOffice was hampered a bit by the fact that Oasis doesn't address some of the file types that KOffice uses. When possible, they used them, but until OO.o 2.0 is out, there's no final standard, and even then there will be no standard for some file formats. Hopefully the OASIS format specs will distance themselves a bit from OO.o in order to provide useful specifications for a wider set of applications than ones that line up against OO.o.

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Evan

Re:What's the point?

[Just Some Guy]

But OpenOffice is painful for me to use in an otherwise KDE-only desktop. For starters, it doesn't use KIO slaves, so I can't open files fish sftp:// fish://, or webdav:// from remote hosts. That and a million other small things (like load time) make KWord much more pleasant for me in daily usage.

I'm glad we have two strong, popular office suites that don't compete for resources -- that is, KDE folks probably have little interest in hacking OpenOffice and vice versa. Now that they'll be sharing a common file format, it'll be nice to be able to pick the right tool for a particular job and know that users can still view the results in their environment of choice.

Re:An interesting thing to watch

[delire]

(With OO.o being cross-platform and all, why would KOffice be used? I gave up on AbiWord in favor of OO.o for that very reason...)

For what very reason?

Re:Expect More Interest

[bhalo05]

Not a rumor ;)

QT 4 announcment

Kexi is awesome

[bhsx]

Kexi is a really exciting addition to KOffice. I've had my eye on it for a long time. The beta build process was a real bear; but I even got a few versions built. It was snappy and probably even easier to use than Access. You can search /. for a post from a couple years ago with me bitching about needing an Access replacement; with Kexi and Base (OO.o) we now have two! Awesome.

Re:YES!

[Anonymous Coward]

Krita isn't a stupid name if you're Swedish, and I highly suspect some of the authors are (I haven't checked). Krita means 'chalk' in Swedish.

Now go troll somewhere else.

more screenshots

[Karma Sucks]

On OSDir.com.

Re:What's the point?

[Anonymous Coward]

OOO now can use native widgets.
Try the 1.9m* snapshots. Feels a LOT snappier.

Re:The end of data

[mrchaotica]

What the heck are you talking about? The entire point of OASIS is to fix that problem by creating a standard format!

Not to mention the fact that OASIS is ASCII, just with markup and gzipped.