http://www.osnews.com/story/14168/KOffice_1_5-RC1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:17:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?109657 http://osnews.com/thread?109657 I use Koffice all the time. It's fast, it's simple and it has exactly the toolsets that I use. Anything else is overkill and/or slow. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shaman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?109691 http://osnews.com/thread?109691 Oasis compatibility with OOo is not perfect yet (far from it). I wonder how long it will take.

On the other hand, KOffice is the first real life test for Oasis compatibility. It will show bugs in OOo, if they exist, and provide a showcase for other developers. I have to compliment KOffice developers for the courage to ditch their own implementations and switch to Opendocument. They are providing the first proof that the standard will hold, and seting our documents free. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (amadeo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?109698 http://osnews.com/thread?109698 It will show bugs in OOo, if they exist,

They do, and it already has. Bugs of that kind was among others located in the beta version of OOo Suse shipped. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morty) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?109935 http://osnews.com/thread?109935 although I've given up on linux in general now, I love Koffice, especially Kword. Small, fast, very useful - unlike many other word processors, lets me write a document in more than one language at the same time (something OOo or abiword can't do yet)
Above all, the Koffice suit is actually just enjoyable to use, I can't really explain how, or why it is, but it's nice to use and unlike using OOo or MS word, I don't find myself pulling my hair out wondering why it's "decided" to be helpful and do something it thinks I wanted! Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netean) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?109965 http://osnews.com/thread?109965 unlike many other word processors, lets me write a document in more than one language at the same time (something OOo or abiword can't do yet)

Excuse me ? I have a hard time believing Abiword can't write documents in more than one language, as every Gnome app can do that as long as they use GTK widget text entry or a derivative. You say you've given up on Linux, so perhaps you tried Abiword on Windows. In that case, you should say so instead of spreading unintentional FUD.

Above all, the Koffice suit is actually just enjoyable to use, I can't really explain how, or why it is, but it's nice to use

I agree, but some apps just lacks lots of functionality, so for example, my wife switched to gnumeric (on her own), even for managing things at home, instead of Kspread or OOcalc. I still did not finish installing this KOffice though. I was still installing Koffice 1.4.3, but with the latest KDE release, I switched to Koffice 1.5-rc1. Well, it's become a monster tarball, at least 30 MB IIRC. It has already taken 4 hours to build on my PC, and it still is not finished.
I don't use office suites at home, but my wife is a good quality tester for at least the spreadsheet : she's using Excel intensively at work, both OOcalc and Kspread did not pass the test, and she uses a KDE desktop at home. But she found gnumeric herself, and it passed the test without problem. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ookaze) Comments