I was wondering if it was possible to make OpenOffice have a KDE4 look instead of a KDE3 look? I have gtk-engines-qt installed but that doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas? (sorry if this question might be unrelated to KDE somewhat)

OpenOffice uses its own abstraction layer for drawing widgets, comboboxes, etc. It does not make any use of Qt, and uses GIO and Cairo however ( which are GNOME ), but no Gtk.

I was shocked when I saw the amount of libraries of its own OpenOffice used.

Right OK, time to ask OpenOffice to support KDE 4 directly.

I'm hoping that KOffice will replace most Open Office when 2.0 get's released officially. I've seen screenshots of Open Office properly integrated using the gtk-qt4 engine, but wasn't able to reproduce unfortunately.

mensch wrote:I'm hoping that KOffice will replace most Open Office when 2.0 get's released officially. I've seen screenshots of Open Office properly integrated using the gtk-qt4 engine, but wasn't able to reproduce unfortunately.

I'm hoping for that too, but I think we hope in vain for the forseeable future. This is not knocking the Koffice devs though - they do a great job all things considered, and especially if you consider how few developers they have. I just don't think they can match the pace of OO. OO have far more developers after all.

Still, I'm not even sure Koffice and OO have the same target audience in mind. To me, Koffice is more geared towards people that:

1. Have more modest demands of an office suite
2. Wants a better integration with KDE

OO is, IMO, more full-featured and more desktop agnostic. Note that neither approach is wrong - it just depends on what you require of the office suite.

i'll could use only koffice if i could read the .pps files !
Impress has this ability

As much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft Office is much better - for new users who just want to get the job done easily. As someone who doesn't care about the advanced features this unfortunately is painfully obvious (and can easily be installed using CrossOver office.)

But back on topic - OO needs to look like the new KDE4 interface, the current one just looks so childish.

Maybe (stressing "maybe") opensuse's OOo (based on go-oo) will have kde4 integration first than the official build:
https://features.opensuse.org/304879
Let's see...
On a side note, I agree with Kryten2X4B: koffice is not for "powerusers" yet.
I think kpresenter will be an interesting alternative to impress, and that karbon14 is better than Draw... but kword is light years behind Writer.