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KDE Joins ODF Alliance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-ground-troops dept.

UseFree.org writes "The position of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) was strengthened today when the free & open source K Desktop Environment (KDE) announced that it has joined the ODF Alliance. KDE developer David Faure has been instrumental in developing the OpenDocument standard, which is already implemented in KOffice, KDE's office suite. Faure says: 'The fact that KOffice provides an independent implementation of the OpenDocument file format, and was able to take part in its specification, proves that OpenDocument is actually a standard, not just a rubber stamp on Sun's OpenOffice file format. What makes an open standard is not merely approval by a committee, but independent implementations.'"

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  1. Re:Apple Says goodbye to AppleWorks, Hello to... by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the successor to Claris/AppleWorks is iWork, which has its own file format for no apparent reason. It's doubly silly because it's just like ODF except that it uses a different XML schema/doctype/whatever and is a folder ("bundle" in Mac terminology) instead of zip file.

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  2. Re:Safari? by pavon · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the ODF code is in Koffice not Konquerer, so porting it to Safari wouldn't help. Besides, if they were going to port the code it would be better to put a viewer in Preview, and import/export in iPages, rather than Safari (I don't know if ODF would work well as the native file format as iPages is a cross between Word Processing and Desktop Publishing).

    The good news is that KDE 4.0 will run natively on OS X, which means that all the KDE applications, like K Office, will run natively.

  3. Re:Why in Linux section? by LiquidFire_HK · · Score: 2, Informative
    Quoting Wikipedia:
    KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, BSD, AIX, Unixware, OpenServer and Solaris. There are also ports to Mac OS X using its X11 layer and Microsoft Windows using Cygwin. Currently, a large portion of the primary KDE libraries and a few other applications can work natively on Microsoft Windows, thanks to the KDElibs/win32 Project. Ports of other KDE applications are being discussed.
    I doubt you'll find it extremely hard to google for some screenshots or info.