KOffice is working on its future, one based on KDE4. KOffice is starting new initiatives with libraries like Flake and Pigment that are going to be used for all KOffice applications. For the users of KOffice those changes are invisible until the 2.0 previews actually start to appear some months from now. Therefore the KOffice crew wants to show you their goals of what KOffice 2 is going to look like.
*hoping for a KDE4/Koffice2 Suse 10.2 in January 07*
These changes (e.g., integration of the new libraries) sound like they might impact KOffice’s OASIS/OpenDocument compatability. There are some rather divergent approaches described and implied in the article…I hope the OpenOffice et al. teams are being kept in the loop to ensure interoperability.
Edited 2006-06-07 20:16
That’s why ODF was designed by a multilateral consortium, to make sure that the specification pertained to generic models of document content and structure, as opposed to one that matched a document model used in a particular product. This was MS’s big objection to ODF: they wanted a format that translates closely to their internal document model, and ODF wasn’t like that. Instead, ODF is capable of representing documents produced using a model based on styles (OpenOffice) or one based on frames (KOffice) equally well.
I wouldn’t worry about ODF support in KOffice 2.0. Obviously the KOffice team has a 100% committment to ODF (they were the first suite to ship with ODF support). And further, KOffice has been based on the idea of embeddable frames for several releases, so the roadmap to version 2.0 seems more than evolution than revolution.
You can forget about it, KDE4/Koffice2 won’t be release until at least March 2007 (and I wouldn’t expect it before May). It’s a big effort but it will be worth it.
..to see KOffice for Windows
I’d like to try it out anyway.
Flake, shapes, tools, Pigment, fine, I’m sure it’ll be great, but… but I await for improvements in KSpread, adding features it lacks, polishing what is already on-board. I consider spreadsheet app as one of crucial in every office suite and KSpread is far from satisying my needs.
Does anyone has some piece of information about planned improvements for KSpread?
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KSpread%20Development
I would like to see them take more of an approach towards Martin Pfeiffer gui.
Nice screenshot here:
http://www.koffice.org/competition/gui1results.php
Unlikely, sorry. Don’t expect KDE 4/ Koffice 2 before at least april or may in your favorite distribution…
edit: why o why o why doesn’t this just work… why doesn’t this post just show up threaded with the one it replied upon… why is this site so broken?
Edited 2006-06-08 14:18
I dont think it is broken, it is just designed so that the newest posts are in back. If you want what your describing in osnews.com, then send them an email with a feature request.
Actually the feature already exists! And I myself have it turned on. But like the parent said, it is just broken. Which is a bad thing… I really like OSNews.. but this message threading system would be much better if it worked.