KDE Readies KOffice 2.0 As OpenOffice Competitor 337
Da Massive writes in with a link to a story on KOffice 2.0, the next generation of the KDE office suite due sometime next year. In an interview with KDE spokesman Sebastian Kugler, Computerworld reports that KOffice 2.0 will be leaner, faster, and enjoy a cleaner code base than OpenOffice. It will also feature more applications, including an Access-like database creator, a flowcharter, and an image manipulation tool. KOffice is not yet fully compatible with ODF but the claim is that 2.0 will be.
KOffice 2.0 is FAST! (Score:5, Interesting)
While OpenOffice.org may have a larger feature set at this point, it just won't be able to compete with KOffice when it comes to being responsive and memory-efficient. Having built the KOffice source code from SVN just last week, I can tell you that you'll notice the difference immediately. OpenOffice.org just feels really damn sluggish, while KOffice is quick.
Slightly off topic, but related, Kontact (Score:3, Interesting)
Why no love of Kerberos!
Please try my database libraries / app (Score:4, Interesting)
There are 3 main components: a form object, a datasheet object, and a reporting module ( which exports to PDF via PDF::API2 ). I'm also working on a GUI object builder that exports XML for all 3 objects. Click on the 'future' link to see some screenshots of it in action. Note that I'm also looking for developers to help out, and maybe create a commercial project out of it ( I'm as-yet undecided whether to do this or not ).
I've had a number of large, complex production systems built on these libraries in use for about 2 years now. Please try it out, comment, report bugs, help out
Re:KOffice 2.0 is FAST! (Score:3, Interesting)
It has been my office app of choice since then.
Re:It's about time (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:It's about time (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:KOffice 2.0 is FAST! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It's about time (Score:3, Interesting)
For example, a few years ago my ex-girlfriend had to make a large database of English loanwords used in China for her undergrad thesis. I tried to get her to use MySQL, but the lack of any GUI at the time was a turnoff. She used MS Access successfully instead.
I hear that Kexi (KDE-based) is a very nice and rapidly improving Access replacement, but haven't tried it. Nothing like it for GNOME, AFAIK.
Re:Native Mac Version (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:GNOME or other wms (Score:3, Interesting)
Hard drive space is cheap.