john_hudson wrote:But if you are a home user with no need to exchange documents with MS Word users or a business user like myself with only an occasional need to exchange documents with MS Word users, then KWord is fine - particular now that I can simply pass a KWord document through OO if a Word user wants a copy of it rather than just a PDF.

I agree with you and today I installed it again after...many years (1.6). It works very good except Krita which need more than 5 minutes to start. Krita was the reason that I install the Koffice.
I have a FreeBSD and I will ask about problem in their forum.
BTW I open and MS file which I made whith OO and save as MS doc file.

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I always find this funny:
"Why don't KOffice devs just push their efforts into OpenOffice.Org?"
Retaliation:
"Why don't OpenOffice.Org devs just push their efforts into KOffice?"

For me, that actually makes the most sense... O.o

@lumiwa yes last time I build KOffice on FreeBSD (probably a year ago, maybe more), I noticed the same problem, I found out that loading some plugins that link to one of the koffice library was extremely slow on FreeBSD (never found out why exactly), and Krita have a lot of those.

Because the koffice devs rock.

Now the real question, is why OO.o exists instead of just contributing to, and helping develop Koffice?

Kubuntiac wrote:Because the koffice devs rock.

Now the real question, is why OO.o exists instead of just contributing to, and helping develop Koffice?

Madman wrote:I always find this funny:
"Why don't KOffice devs just push their efforts into OpenOffice.Org?"
Retaliation:
"Why don't OpenOffice.Org devs just push their efforts into KOffice?"

For me, that actually makes the most sense... O.o

I didn't have the time to test Koffice 2.0 yet, but I am really looking forward to see Koffice 2.1 release, since it was claimed to be user-ready. Actually, it's kind of funny: I was waiting for KDE 4.3 to stabilize for so long, that I kind of got used to GNOME (since Ubuntu really does a great job with polishing it). There is, however, one thing that lacks in GNOME world: a lightweight, convenient and efficient word processor. AbiWord is supposed to be a lightweight word processor of choice, but it simply sucks IMO. This is why I am waiting for Koffice and if it meets my goal, I think it really must exist.
OpenOffice is probably nice for someone who earns money by working on document's appearance (I don't mean designers - there is LaTeX/Scribus for that. I mean the actual office workers). For someone who earns money by creating the content (like me), OpenOffice Writer is heavy, clumsy, bloated and unefficient. I need something that doesn't get into my way, loads fast and has a clean interface. I believe this is also what Koffice devs want to achieve. If they can do it, me (and I believe, a lot of folks like me) will switch to Koffice. For me that would also mean switching to KDE.

You all have my curiosity about Koffice up...what about the spreadsheet, how does it compare with OO?

The spreadsheet supports most of the bog-standard stuff. Still, the interesting thing about KOffice is Flake Shapes. They'll let you seamlessly copy e.g. a graph from KSpread right into KWord without using ugly embedding and spawning toolbar-hell like some other popular office suite does *cough*.
You can also treat graphs and charts made in KSpread like any old image, path or whatever: resize, scale and rotate it freely and, if you're including it in e.g. KPresenter or KWord, the text will wrap round it like you expect.

I'm looking forward to KOffice 2.1
I'll have a new flashy office program(s) to play with for schoolwork.