Re: take KOffice out of Kde?

On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Terry wrote:
> 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?

well, from my pov I totaly agree there on anything you wrote in this mail and
the reply and I would support it in any case (ok, probably cause I am also a
big xfce-fan and even there I use KOffice and other K-apps since they just
work best for me and same will be true with Windows).

But I also guess a fork like suggested isn't a solution nor would it provide
any advantage. Technical it may possible to provide something like a "thin
kdelibs compatibility lib" that removes any KDE-dependencies while keeping
the sourcecode clean from any #ifdef's. But even those thing would be a
rather large task and I doubt it would really provide any serious advantage
for users. For sure there is no way to replace Qt somehow.

In my eyes it's not that much a technical question but more a political one.
So, to have an own Logo+identity would be a start (to bad we even managed to
remove both things from KOffice a year back) and even to have a forum run by
ppl outside of the KDE-world would be a great thing. But I guess as soon as
it's about actions that may result in additional work for developers it
starts to become very difficult. Also, as pointed out during our last talk
about that matter, there are also advantages at beeing recognized as "KDE
Office": we are able to profit a lot by reusing the KDE-infrastructur (svn,
mailinglist, events, branding, marketing, etc.) and we have what makes KDE
such strong: integration (things like kiosk, kparts, kio, kshortcut2, etc.).

p.s. that's all my personal opinion and if you read the other replies you may
note, that each one has another opinion here what may the reason why there
was just no progress on that matter at all.

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