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Calligra 2.5 Office and Creativity Suite Released

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jrepin writes "The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce version 2.5 of Calligra, the KDE's office and creativity suite. Words, the word processor, has among other things improved support for editing of tables, tight run-around of text around images, manipulation of table borders, and dragging of text. Sheets, the spreadsheet application has a new stand-alone docker for the cell editor and a new cell tool window with cell formatting controls. Stage, the presentation program, has a number of usability improvements. Flow, the diagram application, has support for new stencils in odf custom shapes. Kexi, the database application, now offers a full screen mode. Krita, the painting application, has a new compositions docker, useful in movie storyboard generation. At the same time as the desktop version, the community also releases a QML based version for tablets and smartphone: Calligra Active." If there's one application here I'd like to see on a (pen) tablet, it's braindump.

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  1. Finally! by tigersha · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KDE's office suite reached the point where Excel and Word were in 1995! Great!

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    1. Re:Finally! by Compaqt · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yeah, and for a lot of people (maybe 80%), that's all they need.

      In fact Excel 95 was great. It even included a nice FPS game as an Easter egg.

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    2. Re:Finally! by dclozier · · Score: 2

      And for some people that's all they want. As long as they keep the UI consistent and stay away from change for the sake of change (ie. ribons) they'll have plenty of happy users.

    3. Re:Finally! by unixisc · · Score: 2

      They just need to be where Office 2003 was. That's pretty adequate. I just hope all the bugs in Kexi have been fixed.

    4. Re:Finally! by Carewolf · · Score: 3, Informative

      LOL. Well there were a few improvements by making the suite into active x objects, so that you could place one item into another. (for example an excel table in a word document and still have it editable in the excel style.)

      Koffice has been using Kparts for a decade, I can only assume calligra hasn't reverted that.

    5. Re:Finally! by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2

      Which peaked in Office 97.

      So they're only a single release behind.

    6. Re:Finally! by AvitarX · · Score: 4, Informative

      KDE is fairly innovative.

      We owe Webkit to their NIH syndrome for example. Additionally, Krita is an interesting app that doesn't really have an open source analog.

      Their take on Kword has always been different than MS's take on word processing (which is where Libre Office gets theirs). I really like how the toolbars in KDE4 behave too, getting the interface totally native is a nice touch.

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    7. Re:Finally! by ichthus · · Score: 2

      100% compatibility with MS Office is something that even MS office can't offer.

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    8. Re:Finally! by vurian · · Score: 2

      And, of course, KOffice, Calligra these days, is older than LibreOffice or OpenOffice. It predates the opening of StarOffice.

  2. Re:HTML text editing in cells by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 2

    Uhm? There is no such thing as bold text in a CSV file. It's plain text with commas and quotation marks.

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  3. The Application names: Wow by denis-The-menace · · Score: 2

    They are imaginative but they do not hint to their function.

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    1. Re:The Application names: Wow by Desler · · Score: 3, Funny

      Obviously the Caligula Office is a suite of tools for planning and marketing your sexual orgies and other perversity.

  4. Re:Is Krita now the equivalent of Windows Movie Ma by ingwa · · Score: 2

    No, it means that there is support for creating the series of still pictures that make up the story for a movie before the production starts.

  5. Re:HTML text editing in cells by Compaqt · · Score: 2

    >Which would not be CSV anymore. CSV is by its format definition purely plain text tabular data separated by a delimiter.

    Well, basically it all comes down to the environment that you're importing into. There's no law that says you can't put less-than and greater-than signs into a CSV field. Once you have that, you've got HTML.

    The environment I'm importing into (Drupal) handles newlines within quoted fields just fine.

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  6. Java by sourcerror · · Score: 3, Informative

    Calligra has Krita and other graphics tools too, which are pretty unique. Also the true RMS believers always steered clear from OpenOffice because it depends on Java.

  7. Nice ribbon-like UI by bazorg · · Score: 2

    Seriously - that formatting toolbar that adjusts to the task at hand looks great. Displaying it as a vertical palette rather than a horizontal ribbon like MS Office makes a lot of sense for the wide screens I use most of the time.

  8. Re:why another office suite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They did it specifically to annoy people like you.

  9. Re:why another office suite? by jbolden · · Score: 3, Informative

    Huh? Calligra is much older than Libre Office. KDE office was around when Libre was still Star Office. Neither one of them is new kid on the block unless you want to go back 15 years. If you do back 15 years...

    the goal of KDE was to create a GUI for Linux. The Office suite has to follow the GUI standards.
    Star Office was a port of a pre-existing 2nd tier office suite to Linux. They didn't follow the GUI standards but they were the furthest along when Sun acquired them.