On 28 Feb, David Bellows wrote:
>
> Michael Perry wrote:
>>
>> How about a review so far of your feelings about the state of koffice.
>> I would be interested in usability issues, how its interface appears,
>> etc. Can you give me an idea what is attractive or interesting about
>> koffice? I will probably download and try it at some point. Right
>> now, I am enjoying gnome on suse 6 quite a bit. I dont mind running
>> both and after seeing some posts about koffice will most likely grab it.
>>
>> Does the word processing part do imports and exports?
>
> First I should say that KOffice is still alpha, so there is much that
> doesn't work yet. I think some of the apps are further along than
> others, but I haven't spent much time going into each one. The best
> description of its features can be found at the KDE web page, but I'll
> give my impressions here. The basic idea of the suite is that you'll be
> able to move projects around easily from one app to another (like kword,
> kformula, killustrator, kspread, kimage, kpresenter, kdiagram) i.e.
> inserting a formula written in kformula into kword and then putting all
> this together with images from kimage into a presentation in kpresenter
> (you get the idea).
David-
Many thanks for the review. The koffice suite sounds quite interesting
to me. I know that filters take a long time to mature. I think
applix's filters are still doing that since I seem to have issues
almost daily with them. After comparing staroffice 5 and applix, it
seems that staroffice has better overall filter support. Now if it
would just load quicker the first time. I sometimes think it forgot to
launch on my P166. As a note on my Dell Inspiron Pii 366 mhz with 128mb
of ram, 8mb agp card, it still is poky. Just what kind of system does
SO5 want?
As far as Koffice goes, I am now experimenting with gnome and TurboLinux
3.0.1 here. TurboLinux is quite slick and has a lot of nice config.
options. Thats for another email though... :)
Again, thanks.
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