KOffice 2.0.0 Now Open For Firefox-Like Extensions

jakeb writes "After a massive three-year development effort KOffice 2.0.0 has been released (packages for Kubuntu are available) aiming to be a lightweight, cross-platform office suite that supports third-party apps and extensions. With its new design (everything, including the core components, is a module) and bindings, you don't need to know C++ to hack on KOffice, as extensions can be written in Python or Java, among others. TechWorld has an interview with KOffice marketing coordinator Inge Wallin about the vision for an easy-to-use office suite that supports click-to-install extensions like Firefox. Will this be the key to KOffice rising above all other free office suites? The KOffice devs think so. An online repository of extensions, templates, and content for KOffice? I like the sound of that."

Comments

Re:Color me not impressed

[scorp1us]

OpenOffice is from StarOffice, owned by Sun.
Gnome Office is for Gnome
KOffice is for KDE.

All are different code bases. KOffice is based off KDE4 libraries, which are now ported to Windows.

more alternatives

[castironpigeon]

I'm glad to see that we have so many software options for even the most basic computer functions that Average Joe User needs to hire a personal assistant to make intelligent decisions about what software packages to install. Oh, but Average Joe User doesn't use Linux so we don't need to worry about that. Correct, and this is one big reason why.