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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. "Competitor" my ass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it doesn't work in Windows, it will only see a fraction of the OO.o market.

  2. Re:It doesnt compete with anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are wrong. It competes with OpenOffice.org for the title for the best office suite on Linux. Which in itself must be about 0,0001% of an office productivity software market...

  3. Re:i hope the database app delivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So...in other words...KOffice is your standard piece of crap open source project.

    Big plans - check!
    Buggy as hell - check!
    Unfit for normal user operation - check!
    Next version is rumored to be killer - check!

    Not really surprising since most of the KOffice/KDE devs appear to be spending most of their time posting as ACs here on Slashdot ripping on OpenOffice...

  4. I wish them luck ... by golodh · · Score: -1, Troll
    ... but I'm not in the least interested in KOffice.

    I got used to Microsoft Office, have switched (with some gripes) to Open Office, and am getting up to speed with it. Works OK under Linux *and* under Windows. The very last thing I need is yet another (half-baked) piece of software reinventing the wheel.

    Oh well ... if they really want to, they can develop their KOffice of course. Just don't expect me (or others who just want their office software to "just work" and look the way they are used to) to pay any attention or to respond with anything but mild irritation (can't they think of anything more productive to do?). I'm not even installing it. Not until and unless I see mainstream-press reviews (and no, really no Linux enthousiast reviews: I have seen reviews touting Emacs as a text processor instead of MS Office or Open Office. *sigh*)

    Why not focus on really perfecting Open Office? And who knows ... perhaps even adding new worthwhile features to it (the "extensions" come to mind).

  5. my take on it all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i crap on linux. it's trash and those who are devotees to the trash are faggots and idiots.

    1. Re:my take on it all by SpaceballsTheUserNam · · Score: -1, Troll

      Bill?

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    2. Re:my take on it all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      fuck. get a set of balls and use a real unix instead of being a shill. common fucking bullshit from the linux camp. what else could we expect from a bunch of faggots and wannabes?

  6. 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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  7. 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?