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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. Blaargag! by WurdBendur · · Score: 0, Troll

    It may be leaner, faster and cleaner than Open Office, but KDE will still be sitting in its lap, right in the way of your productivity.

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    SCISNE? ANUS SIMIAE!
  2. Re:why don't they think of a catchy name by arth1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The K- nomenclature is a fair warning to users that unless he or she already runs KDE and thus have all the libraries loaded, it will be a MAJOR bloat to run.
    I think it's fairly useful -- as a non-KDE user, if I have the choice between packages named kfoo, jfoo and xfoo, guess which one I'll try first?