[kde-linux] Kword needs fixing, or dropping.

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 20:19:46 Beso wrote:
> 2009/2/17 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss at iguanasuicide.net>:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 10:02:15 John Culleton wrote:
> >> I sense that Kword is the forgotten stepchild of the KDE
> >> family. If no one is available to maintain it perhaps it
> >> deserves to be dropped from KDE. The last copyright date on
> >> it was 2006.
> >
> > The KOffice programs never really lived up to their promise in the 1.x
> > versions, which is why they have basically been abandoned for work on the
> > 2.x versions, which IIRC are in "Beta 6" right now.  You might try those
> > versions to see if it is a better experience.
> >
> > The KOffice team is working hard.  KOffice 2.x may be the most complete
> > and well-integrated version 2 of any office suite, ever.
>
> well, if you want to open files that are different than ods you
> cannot. or at least i cannot do it... i don't know
> how to open different types of files...

My copy of KWord will open 27 different types of file including among others 
Ami-pro, Word Perfect, M$ Word and Abiword.  When, in KMail, I double click 
on one of the Word doc files so beloved of others in their attachments, it 
opens in KWord.  And, the icing on the cake for me, it is particularly easy 
to set KWord up for Japanese text input.

If your copy of KWord is as restricted as you say, it is either a faulty 
file - purge and reinstall - or it is a quirk of your distro.  I am using 
KWord 1.6.3 on Debian Lenny. (Now Debian 5 \o/ )

HTH
Lisi