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Re: [trinity-devel] A users perspective on Trinity

From: Katheryne Draven <borgqueen4@...>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:00:50 -0400
Tiago

We are, actually, agreeing with you. KOffice is staying.

From Tim:

> To clear up some things:
> * koffice cannot be built in pieces, but there is no reason to drop it at
> this time.

Kate

On 7/7/11, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 06 July 2011 05:00:07 Robert Xu wrote:
>>
>> > > KOffice: I never piped in on that debate, but I see no reason to
>> maintain
>> > > most of KOffice. LibreOffice is more than acceptable as a replacement.
>> I do
>> > > think the wiki needs to be updated with instructions how to build
>> > > LibreOffice to ensure native KDE3/Trinity file picker support (using
>> the
>> > > --enable-kde build option). I think a handful of apps from KOffice
>> should be
>> > > maintained, such as Kivio, Krita, etc. I don't see a need to maintain
>> the
>> > > main apps.
>> >
>> > When you put it that way... Is it possible to maintain a subset of
>> > KOffice? Like Darell said, only a handful of apps? Or is it all or
>> > nothing?
>>
>> You people miss the point: there is no other office suite in the world
>> which
>> is so closely integrated with KDE3 as KOffice. For instance, it provides
>> KParts
>> which are used in say, Konqueror, that's why you can open a text document
>> in Konqueror like a web page. You can imbed web pages in your documents
>> as well.
>>
>>
> And who would want that? I certainly wished the default behavior on
> Konqueror was to open always in external viewers, which don't suck.
>
> Tiago
>
>  There is no such thing in Libre/Open Office. There was a project named
>> Cuckooo,
>> but it does not build now
>>
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=cuckooo&project=home%3AAnsus%3AKDE3
>>
>>
>>
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