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Re: [trinity-devel] Support for KDE3 removed from LibreOffice

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:46:03 -0600
> On 3/12/11, Kristopher Gamrat <pikidalto@...> wrote:
>> I have been using OpenOffice for some time now without problem. I
>> admit I haven't used anything except Kwrite since Oracle took over
>> OOo, but I hear that LibreOffice forked off because of what Oracle is
>> doing with OOo.
>>
>> Awhile back I was using OxygenOffice. Other than the added templates,
>> I don't know what they changed, but those were helpful to have rather
>> than searching the OOo website all the time.
>>
>> I also know of go-oo, but I haven't used it.
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned, KDE3/TDE support is important, so I don't
>> know why openSuSE (or really anybody) would disable it other than that
>> people tend to do stuff that's counterintuitive just because they feel
>> like it and haven't learned how to think of the consequence (or how
>> think in general).
>>
>> --
>> Kris
>> "Piki"
>> Ark Linux Webmaster
>> Trinity Desktop Environment Packager
>>
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> What about making improvements to koffice. Or is that beyond possible now?

The koffice project moved on to KDE4.  Personally koffice was always more
hassle than it was worth, but others may disagree with me.

Tim