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KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released

Posted by timothy on from the nose-under-the-tent dept.

jrepin writes "Coffice is a new project that tries to make KDE's Calligra office suite available on mobile platforms like Android, Blackberry 10, Jolla SailfishOS and Ubuntu Phone. Calligra already has some presence on smartphones, since document viewer on Nokia N9 is based on it. The first release brings Calligra Words viewer for OpenDocument Text documents and is currently available for Android only. Plans for later releases include viewers for spredsheets and presentations. Editing and saving as well as support for proprietary Microsoft Office formats are coming later."

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  1. OSX would be nice... by jockm · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is a shame that there still isn't a stable version for OSX.

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    1. Re:OSX would be nice... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 4, Informative

      Just install KDE on your MAC and run it native! Sure, you have compile it from source but think of the satisfaction you'll feel every time you fire up your office suite...

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    2. Re:OSX would be nice... by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The primary aspect that sets computer text comprehension apart from humans' is that computers have trouble understanding context.
      You've just made the gap a bit smaller.

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    3. Re:OSX would be nice... by jockm · · Score: 2

      When I am offered ice cream I don't want to be handed rock salt and milk and told to churn it myself :)

      More to the point, yes while I am capable to compiling it and running it myself, though I would feel annoyance every time I launched it, I said I wanted a stable version. Not an experimental version, nor an unstable version; and that is all we have now. That is all we have had for years now.

      It is lovely they are pushing the bounds and porting to Android, I just with they would either produce a stable OSX build, or stop claiming OSX support on the main page, because right now all they are giving me is rock salt...

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    4. Re:OSX would be nice... by jockm · · Score: 2

      Also can I introduce you to this little gem:

      Krita needs to disable OpenGL in Preferences.

      That is not acceptable. And just how many YEARS has the OSX build been unstable and experimental? I have lost count.

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  2. OpenOffice by markdavis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Although this sounds interesting, what would be more useful for me would be OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Android.

    http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/
    http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android
    http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11985/is-libreoffice-4-available-for-android/

    1. Re:OpenOffice by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You do realize that this uses the exact same file format? Since the interface is necessarily going to change between a phone or tablet interface and a desktop program, just pretend this is LibreOffice on Android and you'll be good.

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    2. Re:OpenOffice by ingwa · · Score: 2

      The Calligra rendering engine is actually very good. Nokia put a lot of effort into Calligra to make it a super good document viewer for their N900 and N9 MeeGo phones. This includes all MS Office formats (doc/docx, xls/xlsx, ppt/pptx). Heck, Calligra supports more of docx than MS own embedded office versions. And it's much better than any other free offering, including OpenOffice or LibreOffice, when it comes to viewing.

  3. spellcheck by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny

    viewers for spredsheets and presentations

    But apparently no spellchecker. Not that anyone at Slashdot uses one.

  4. Nice to be off the cloud by nazsco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Finally a office suite not forcing me to store all mydata on their servers.

    Though be warned, it will download some 20mb of qt libraries. On my nexus one, this raises the bar on if i can even have the app by a huge margin

  5. The Benefit of KOffice/Calligra by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 2

    The KOffice/Calligra applications serve absolutely indispensable use: Kvivio/Draw. It got me though my Four Cisco CCNA Classes when I was in university. It is a Visio diagramming program that at least partly can replaces Visio.

    1. Re:The Benefit of KOffice/Calligra by Noughmad · · Score: 2

      Why do you say that as if being Qt-based were a bad thing?

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  6. Not so suite news by The+Infamous+Grimace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The title implies a full office suite; at this point it's just a doc viewer. Let me know when 'Sheets' is ready; I could use a decent spreadsheet app for my Nexus 7, and Kingsoft doesn't do it for me.

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  7. Coffice? by Freggy · · Score: 2

    And finally we got rid of this terrible KOffice name, and now they call this Coffice? What was wrong with Calligra Mobile?

  8. New ecosystem taking shape by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Targetting a bunch of mobile platforms at once is one of the biggest advantages of QT/QML. Having a key app as Calligra in all of them not just gives base to the new mobile platforms, but also extend the ecosystem to Android, as a lot of people will have the libraries installed, making more attractive to develop for it.