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The following KOffice applications are mentioned favourably in an IT Management article:
Kexi - KOffice database
KPresenter - KOffice presentation
Krita - KOffice image editor compared favourably with The Gimp
KSpread - KOffice spreadsheet
KWord - KOffice word processor
Cross platform KOffice to challenge OpenOffice.org Rodney Gedda on computerworld.com
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Review of kWord by Carla Schroder December 6, 2007
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Re: KPresenter in UserBase
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KPresenter in UserBase
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Re: RTL documents in Koffice
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Re: RTL documents in Koffice
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Formulae in Kword
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Re: RTL documents in Koffice
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Re: RTL documents in Koffice
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Re: RTL documents in Koffice
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RTL documents in Koffice
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Office viewer for Maemo5 based on KOffice
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2.1 b2
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Re: problem and motivations
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problem and motivations
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Re: Fwd: Re: How to view .kpr files ?
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Fwd: Re: How to view .kpr files ?
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koffice.org/download added
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Re: Can't run kword on openSUSE 11.1 x64
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Can't run kword on openSUSE 11.1 x64
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Questions about the KOffice version control and bug tracking systems
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Re: Koffice download for windows
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Fwd: Koffice download for windows
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Many users of KOffice no doubt use the Kde desktop. The following is a recent article by Bruce Byfield: 12 Tips for KDE Users
Firefox KDE Integration
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Now that the mention of the Firefox KDE integration I've done has reached also the dot, I guess it's time for a couple of things that don't quite fit into an article but I should probably say them somewhere anyway.
First of all, this is nothing against Konqueror. I still use Konqueror. In fact when a couple of months back there was a wave of "let's ditch Konqueror" voices on the planet and kde-core-devel, I was one of the people opposing that (and I still think it's not an option, as Konqueror is still the best KDE browser there is - Aurora is Qt-only, Rekonq is at version 0.<somesmallnumber>). For the next openSUSE release we will evaluate the possibilities again and Konqy may end up as the default again if it's considered to be up to the job. Speaking of which, Konqueror has never really been 100% default in openSUSE, as the desktop icon, which is what the common user uses, has always been Firefox, so we can also say the we just fixed the inconsistency (and it's really simple to switch it back). But the real reason was that many people are simply not satisfied with Konqueror, so we decided to try to not ignore the reality for a change. I myself use Konqueror, but if somebody else wants to browse the net on my home machine, they get Firefox. I don't like this, but what the hell, c'est la vie.
So, when we decided to make Firefox the default, we also faced the problem that we switched to something that from KDE user's point of view sucked in pretty much all aspects except for the browsing itself. The idea of Firefox desktop integration on Unix ranges from not bothering with it at all, over using generic not-really-desktop stuff like mailcap, to thinking Unix==GNOME. Normal Firefox in KDE offers to open PDF files with Evince, shows /usr/bin in a filedialog when you decide you'd like to open the PDF in some other application, has inconsistent (not just reversed) button order in dialogs and other yummy things. There have been attempts to solve this e.g. by creating a Qt version of Firefox, but those AFAIK have never led to something usable in practice, and with WebKit now part of Qt I somehow fail to see the motivation for anybody to try once more. And in this situation we had just a short time before openSUSE 11.2 feature freeze.
The trick, of course, was using magic. The Firefox with KDE integration is still the same Gtk Firefox, just with a bunch of hooks calling an external helper. I don't have the ability of some other KDE developers to have clones, and I'm not crazy enough to try to mix Gtk and Qt in one process (which, despite the possibility of a shared event loop, should be nowhere near trivial). So it's nowhere near the extent of the Qt port, and maybe that's why it has worked out (as we all should know, perfect is the enemy of good).
The helper and the patches at available in a Gitorious repository, they are made to match the openSUSE package so they may not possibly apply cleanly to upstream sources, but feel free to play with it. Actually, you are more than welcome to do anything you want with it (wanna be the maintainer of it? no problem). With the problem more or less solved, and with other things to do, I don't have any further big plans for it. I will try to push this upstream if possible (I have no idea what faces will Firefox developers make when they see it), but besides that, there are still many other areas that need some magic. And, after all, the ultimate plan is still that Konqy will one day rule the world 
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not your average geek
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On a related (to my other blog post today) note, while I'm giving credit where credit is due: my personal KDE hero at the moment is Anne Wilson, who has been helping KDEPIM users for years on our lists and at meetings and has been a voice of reason, courtesy, constructive feedback and positiveness that makes a huge difference in the atmosphere of our community. I much admire her work with the documentation team (userbase, anyone?) and the community working group and ever since I first met her in person (in Glasgow, I think) I have been impressed by the fearless and all embracing manner in which she has found her way amongst us weirdos and become a gentle, well respected leader and wrangler of geeks. I don't know when exactly it is, but happy 70th birthday, Anne, all the best from us PIMsters, we thank you and look forward to many more Akademy meetings with you.
Torchbearers
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Kubuntu 9.10
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9.10 is out. KDE 4 is really taking shape now with more of the important gaps getting filled. We ported OpenOffice integration to KDE 4, the installer got some beautiful love from Nuno, social apps integation in various places, there's a handy message indicator and notifications work cross desktop. We have the latest KDE apps of course, K3b gets a KDE 4 port, user config got ported too. Rather importantly network connects work and intel graphics drivers aren't rubbish.
There's a shiny new Netbook edition thanks to the Plasma Netbook guys, it's not complete yet but it shows off a lot of nice ideas.
Looking at the future there's still some obvious gaps in the KDE 4 stack, some are being worked on like kbluetooth which has a new maintainer, some don't seem to go anywhere like file sharing, others its less clear what to do such as the web browser question. But I'm confident that in six months time we'll have something worthy of being LTS.
Hugs to everyone who helped develop and test this release. Go and download or Upgrade and let us know what you think
Testing Dance Again
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Once again we need testers, this time for the candidate images for Kubuntu 9.10. CDs, DVDs, netboot and upgrades all need going through their paces in triplicate. Join us in #kubuntu-devel to coordinate and log your results on the ISO testing site.
Good karma
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This weekend I visited my parents in law, because my wifes paternal grandmother celebrated her 90th birthday. I noticed that the laptop they use was still running Kubuntu Feisty with OpenOffice 2.2. On this machine, reading emails, managing photos, surfing the internet and working on office documents are most important. Digikam is used for photos. Kmail and konqueror from KDE 3.5 are installed and a mix of OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 97 on wine is in use for editing office documents. in short, a horribly outdated setup of more than two years old. IT is still moving fast. Feisty was not a long term release and no updates for it anymore.
So in a slightly reckless move I decided to update the machine to the next Kubuntu: karmic koala. This meant going to KDE 4.3. To my relief the install went very well. All important settings for digikam and kmail were migrated automatically. Dolphin is really nice and more intuitive for non-professional users. The kwin effects add a nice touch of class (translucent wobbly windows). Plasmoids on the desktop (photo frames and weather forcast) were very well received.
In short: good karma! Thank you very much, Kubuntu team.
(my last two blogs were written on the Nokia N900 which has a good keyboard)
Printing photo albums
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One important feature for photo management is missing in the FOSS world:an application for creating photo albums that can be sent away for printing at a printing service. There is however a pretty slick closed source application that works on linux. It can be fiound at for example Pixum (also in.nl and .de). It is based on Qt 4.4 and installs using a perl script which downloads the artwork and the required libraries. The application is customized for different printing companies that have these customized downloads available from their website. Not all of them
offer the linux or even the macintosh version. This is a shame and probably done to limit the number of different questions users might have. A standard for these photo album ordering services would be great, but I'm not holding my breath and will recommend Pixum for now.
Kubuntu Release Candidate and Shipit CDs on Pre-order
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Kubuntu 9.10 CDs are now available for pre-order on the Kubuntu Shipit site.
Can't wait a month for the CD to be delivered? Download the release candidate now for one last round of testing. Thanks to everyone who helped test the RC releases, see you again next week for the real thing!
Amazing Board
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Amazing Blog This is the amazing idea that came with Amanda from the new local KDE-MG group. Simple, beatifull and the most interesting way to get conference people to enjoy your booth, put his ideas out of the mind and getting everyone close. At this picture, you see Tomaz ( no tap dance included ), and the board, saying ODEIO ( I Hate ) on left and AMO ( I Love ) and everyone can express their feeling about our beloved project where we can improve it or not, writing a note, whatever you want to write. Our small booth is really more interesting:-) Right now, i'm in the talk table to introduce Anne-Marie in her's bugsquad presentation ! Later will talk more about our second Latinoware experience, getting better and better... Ahh, i forgot to say, there's a nice tipical "Minas Gerais" prize waiting for one of the guys writing the note ! 