On Monday 20 June 2011 01:38:41 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> > I think there is no other general-purpose word processor for KDE3 other
> > than KWord.
> > It is unique in its class. I have Scribus, Lyx, TexMaker, PDF Editor in
> > KDE:KDE3
> > but they all implement different functionality and less closely integrated
> > with KDE.
> 
> This is completely subjective.  I would argue that OpenOffice.org is
> unmatched for the way it blends in to TDE and reads/writes all the major
> document formats nearly flawlessly.

We were talking about KDE:KDE3 repository. As I said if KOffice removed
there is no reason to include any other KDE3 word processor in Trinity because all
of those apps are 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.
> >
> > This is completely subjective. One can argue that Amarok 1.4 has
> > better replacements Amarok 2 and Clementine. It can be argued that
> > Konqueror can be replaced with Rekonq and Dolphin etc.
> 
> No, because in those cases the feature set did not include features that
> were present in the original applications.

Clementine is a direct continuation of Amarok. And in any way, as I already said,
it can be similarly argued that OpenOffice does not have all features of KOffice.

> > It is also quite arguable whether say OOo Calc is better than KSpread:
> > opening
> > a spreadsheet in Calc can take minutes while in KSpread only one or
> > two seconds.
> >
> >> > 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.
> >
> > Re-implementing Qt3 support after the change may require huge effort while
> > LibreOffice team is not commited to do it themselves. Do you feel capable
> > to
> > re-implement interface integration yourselves even if your patches will be
> > happily accepted?
> 
> Actually, yes!  I have done it before with other apps and to be honest it
> is not difficult at all.

About what sort of integration do you speak now?