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Re: take KOffice out of Kde?
by Terry-67
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Thanks for the replies.
A higher profile for KOffice would be just as much to my liking. I am
enjoying KWord even with its peculiarities. I'm also looking forward to
KSpread 2.0 being able to open my spreadsheets.
A higher profile for KOffice needs to involve the Linux distros,
particularly those which favour Kde. I don't use the K desktop but I do
use a lot of K applications. I'm endeavouring to get a discussion going
on the PCLinuxOS forum.
A KOffice forum seems to be a good way to build a community of KOffice
users. KOffice needs to be more noticed to attract more backing.
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Terry wrote:
>
>
>> There seems to be nothing happening on this list. It was different not
>> so long ago.
>>
>
> Probably because the exciting things are happening on the svn commit list,
> and that's not that user-visibile.
>
>
>> A couple of us have started thinking about the need for a strong
>> competitor in the field of office software. KOffice may have the
>> potential. Is there any prospect of it stepping outside of the
>> KUniverse with the right support?
>>
>
> Realistically speaking, there will always be a koffice inside the
> kde project -- we love KDE. What you could do is start a company
> or partner with an existing company, fork KOffice into QOffice and
> hire developers. Whether you will able to entice any or many KOffice
> developers to join you in that project depends a lot on the way you go
> about that effort.
>
> For instance, you will have accept that any improvement to your fork
> that the koffice developers like will be incorporated back -- it's lgpl
> and gpl, after all. And doing without KDE is hard but possible, doing
> without Qt is completely impossible. And even as a KDE application, KOffice
> is already cross-platform across X11, Os X and Windows.
>
> We have already been through a similar effort, trying to get serious
> funding for KOffice development, but the person who tried to get the
> money failed to make good on his promises.
>
> Boudewijn
>
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A higher profile for KOffice would be just as much to my liking. I am
enjoying KWord even with its peculiarities. I'm also looking forward to
KSpread 2.0 being able to open my spreadsheets.
A higher profile for KOffice needs to involve the Linux distros,
particularly those which favour Kde. I don't use the K desktop but I do
use a lot of K applications. I'm endeavouring to get a discussion going
on the PCLinuxOS forum.
A KOffice forum seems to be a good way to build a community of KOffice
users. KOffice needs to be more noticed to attract more backing.
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Terry wrote:
>
>
>> There seems to be nothing happening on this list. It was different not
>> so long ago.
>>
>
> Probably because the exciting things are happening on the svn commit list,
> and that's not that user-visibile.
>
>
>> A couple of us have started thinking about the need for a strong
>> competitor in the field of office software. KOffice may have the
>> potential. Is there any prospect of it stepping outside of the
>> KUniverse with the right support?
>>
>
> Realistically speaking, there will always be a koffice inside the
> kde project -- we love KDE. What you could do is start a company
> or partner with an existing company, fork KOffice into QOffice and
> hire developers. Whether you will able to entice any or many KOffice
> developers to join you in that project depends a lot on the way you go
> about that effort.
>
> For instance, you will have accept that any improvement to your fork
> that the koffice developers like will be incorporated back -- it's lgpl
> and gpl, after all. And doing without KDE is hard but possible, doing
> without Qt is completely impossible. And even as a KDE application, KOffice
> is already cross-platform across X11, Os X and Windows.
>
> We have already been through a similar effort, trying to get serious
> funding for KOffice development, but the person who tried to get the
> money failed to make good on his promises.
>
> Boudewijn
>
> ____________________________________
> koffice mailing list
> koffice@...
> To unsubscribe please visit:
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice
>
>
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Regards, Terry North
Murphy's Law is recursive.
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