> On Monday 20 June 2011 00:28:45 Timothy Pearson wrote: > >> > This is a very sad news that you are going to deprecate KOffice, a >> major >> > part of KDE. >> > >> >> We can reconsider this at the next meeting. Can you please provide a >> rationale for keeping koffice, why it is better than LibreOffice with >> TDE >> integration, who still uses it, etc.? > > Basically there is no other office suite that is so closely integrated > with KDE/Trinity. > Aside spreadsheet and word processor KOffice includes graphical apps such > as Krita, > Kivio etc to which Open Office has no alternatives (or do you suggest > using GIMP?). OK, this is a valid point. I wish you had made it to our meeting; by bringing this up you probably would have killed off the deprecation suggestion very quickly. > > Removing KOffice is equal to removing a half of KDE apps. Seriously guys I > thought you hold vector on > improvement and expansion (i.e. adding more apps) rather than removing the > core KDE components. See above. koffice is not half of all apps though. > > If KOffice is removed then there is no reason why other apps should be > added to Trinity. KDE:KDE3 repository > currently has more than 420 KDE3 packages but adding them to Trinity would > have no reason > if KOffice is removed (as KOffice has better quality and better integrated > than most of them). In certain areas. In others (kword and such) the quality is inferior. > > Even more, if KOfiice is removed then there is no reason why other Trinity > components should > not be removed as well by the same logic (AmaroK, Kaffeine, even > Konqueror). No. Some of the koffice components have direct and better replacements, such as kword. > > Concerning Open/Libre Office as you know it has only basic KDE3 > integration which can > be removed any moment. Libre Office team for example is currently > discussing radical change > of the user interface which may lead to removal of Qt3 styles support. LibreOffice is more than happy to accept TDE integration support. As of now, consider koffice deprecation cancelled. Tim