Comments on: KOffice 2.2: Is It Ready Yet?

By: Casper Boemann

Casper Boemann — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:58:02 +0000

This is fixed in trunk and will be part of 2.3

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:16:01 +0000

‘Should’ and ‘can’ are however two different things. Even OOo and KOffice have differences in their reading of the format and MS Office has some major issues still, particularly with spreadsheets.
However, I’ve found the Sun ODF plugin for MS Office to be pretty decent so far…

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:12:53 +0000

Yep I don’t mean to dismiss OpenOffice completely – it has made my life on Linux a lot easier and probably I’d otherwise have needed MS Office in a VM for a lot of tasks.

I’m still using Writer and Calc quite a lot, especially the latter, though some of that is probably just inertia.

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:11:17 +0000

Yep, one of the things I have liked and do like about KOffice is that it doesn’t feel like just a clone. KWord for example has quite an unusual approach to wordprocessing with its frame-based setup although the nice thing is you can also pretty much ignore that for simple docs

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Fair enough. Like with most tools that have a bit of a learning curve you have to take a decision on whether the time spent learning will be worth it in the end – and it probably isn’t for everyone.

Tools like Kile and LyX make it a lot easier though

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:08:36 +0000

Yep, the only way it will happen is if some big customers (governments, really) demand it/switch to alternatives. Then it makes economic sense to do ODF properly.

By: Vamp898

Vamp898 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:44:15 +0000

Microsoft Office 2007 and later have to fully support ODT Format

so if you work in a M$ Environment you should be able to work flawless with ODT (which works on OOo and MS Office)

So no Problems with KOffice too

By: jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:35:10 +0000

Ha, Stu, you’re completely right. I’ve used both OO.o and KPresenter for my talk at LinuxTag, in the end KPresenter did things right and OO.o screwed up

I even managed to create my presentation in about an hour in KPresenter, which is really nice, and the end result is pretty good. So points for the KO team!

By: Gaël

Gaël — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:04:53 +0000

Yes, I know. But up to now (to my knowledge) the emphasis was just on the import filter for the N900 viewer. Export was not worked on. I hope I’m wrong or that it is the next step.

By: Gaël

Gaël — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:02:14 +0000

I doubt a lot M$ will do that. I can be wrong but I suppose they will do all they can to pretend support it and just implement it with slight differences making it unusable. Their strategy has always been to oblige people to stay with their software. For them, interoperability means loosing market share.