Jaroslav On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 23:28 +0200, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> Tom Davies wrote: > > > Hi :) > > Kexi is the database app in Calligra. Calligra is a fork of KOffice. > > KOffice gave all their remaining database devs to Calligra and dropped > > their version of > > the database. Calligra seems very active. > > > > > > Unfortunately Calligra and KOffice are really quite dependant on the K > > Desktop > > Environment (KDE). They do have a port for Windows (and possibly Mac, i'm > > not > > sure). Calligra have also developed a few apps that can work on mobile > > platforms but that doesn't include Kexi yet. > > Hi Tom, > I am Kexi developer. Kexi is dependent only on KDE Frameworks, not KDE > Desktop. Like Libre Office, you can run Kexi with other desktops e.g. GNOME, > any many do that. To show how small the dependencies are, I would maybe > measure the real size of them e.g. for two popular distributions. > > > So, the non-KDE versions of distros are going to ask for a lot of > > dependencies, probably Qt libraries and stuff. You will probably need to > > add the appropriate official repos. > > These days Qt is smalled in size than 5 average JPEG files :) > > > For Ubuntu you can try > > sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop > > to install all of Kubuntu into Ubuntu but you might want to revert to your > > Gnome or Unity DE at the login prompt (have a look along the bottom > > task-bar/panel when you get the login prompt). > > 'sudo apt-get install kexi' or so, would do the trick better because it > would install only dependencies needed by Kexi, not entire KDE Desktop. > > I am looking forward to hear feedback from people that use Kexi outside of > KDE Desktop. > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) > KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) > You can install KOffice in Gnome via Synaptic with Ubuntu. Several dependencies are installed also, the number did not seem excessive (about 5 for KEXI). You can enter KEXI or KOffice for the full suite. I have not use Kexi, only perused the menus. It seems similar to Base. What is the embedded database engine used? -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
