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Does the End of KOffice Mean the End of KDE?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Venerable Linux office suite KOffice has been reborn as "Calligra," a name meant to evoke calligraphy but perhaps a bit too close to the neme of a deranged Roman emperor. Perhaps more importantly, Calligra seems to be cooperating with the future MeeGo mobile Linux distro. Could this be the beginning of the end of the KDE desktop, at least under its current branding?"

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  1. Re:Kalligra by Kjella · · Score: 5, Informative

    The real hint is this:

    Currently all applications except Calligra Words will be maintained by their respective KOffice developers.

    It's more than a renaming, they split. However, when the dust cleared only the KWord developers went with the other group, the rest of the KOffice projects joined what's now Calligra. As far as I can tell the KWord guys wanted to focus on competing with MS Office and OpenOffice for the desktop, while the Calligra Words guys wanted to focus more on mobile. With enough different agendas going on in the same project they had conflict and eventually split. That's at least as far as I've caught the story.

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  2. Re:Kalligra by JackieBrown · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is some more background on the split

    http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=128782551919625&w=2

  3. Re:Typo in summary by SteveFoerster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here!

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  4. Re:Kalligra by jbolden · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I'm reading this thread I'd suggest this link instead:
    http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=128812911619277&w=2