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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:Indeed and it misses the point in so many ways by Anrego · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh, and KDE isn't a product. It's a community. A thought. A feeling.

    A bad dream..

    I know I'm gonna get modded troll for this one.. but the whole plasma desktop thing is a nightmare, and probably will kill KDE (the desktop, the community, etc..). Not for the reasons the article mentions, that's just silliness. For the reason that it has gone from something relatively stable, mature, and well liked.. to a barely usable mess... and has stayed that way. Stuff that should work.. basic stuff.. fails horribly. We arn't talking minor bugs and lack of polish.. we are talking key features like.. the menu.. and desktop wallpaper. Plasma _still_ feels like pre-alpha software.

    I've recently switched to an interesting but very nice combination of openbox and xfce4-panel. It gives me most of what kde3 gave me, without the eye candy I generally disabled anyway. If anyone else is having the "omg how do I get kde3 back" feeling.. might give this off pair a try.

    And I know you always lose users when you make drastic changes.. but hatred ot plasma desktop and a strong desire to get kde3 back seems almost universal in my circle(s).