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KDE Readies KOffice 2.0 As OpenOffice Competitor

Posted by kdawson on from the another-country-heard-from dept.

Da Massive writes in with a link to a story on KOffice 2.0, the next generation of the KDE office suite due sometime next year. In an interview with KDE spokesman Sebastian Kugler, Computerworld reports that KOffice 2.0 will be leaner, faster, and enjoy a cleaner code base than OpenOffice. It will also feature more applications, including an Access-like database creator, a flowcharter, and an image manipulation tool. KOffice is not yet fully compatible with ODF but the claim is that 2.0 will be.

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  1. Re:I, for one, welcome more ODF-based office suite by stinerman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd drop OO.o for "GNOME Office" (if a general collection of programs can be called an office suite), but the functionality is lacking. The PDF output plugin for Abiword created docs that were readable only by Abiword. I'm sure I missed out on a few job opportunities there.

    OO.o does what I need for now. Until KOffice is released with GTK+ widgets, then I'm afraid that I'm going to keep away from it. I simply can't stand KDE anything.

  2. Re:That's sure to become a classic! by empaler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I sort of know the feeling he's describing. I was just so lucky to find that the bathroom I had access to was clean and had the sink placed right next to the toilet seat, thus making it easy to purge out of both ends without soiling myself, though getting the godsdamned chunks out of the sinks took some time, using the paper towels available.