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

[Beso]

2009/2/17 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz at gmail.com>:
> 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/ )
>
i'm using the svn 2.0 version of kword. i've looked inside the
configuration stuff, but when i try to open
a file the only type listed is odt. i cannot select any other type of
file. the old 1.6 serie would open word
and other types of files without much issues (at least the ones
supported) but the new svn version doesn't
seem to. and since i've had some health issues in the last months i
haven't been able to search for the
problem. i still have quite some stuff to do before trying to
understand if the problem is on my side or on the
upstream one and i still haven't fully recovered from the illness, so
i really cannot stay too much in front of
the pc doing this.
to me this is not an issue, but since i've had it i thought about
sharing it since mr. Smith has been saying
that the 2.0 version would be the best integrated office suite ever.
but if the problem i'm experiencing is to be
confirmed i don't really think that his words are really true... i'd
most gladly be on the wrong side this time
and that the kword would really work well and not as i've been experiencing.
another issue is with kpresenter, which locks on start and with kspead
having build difficulties. i know that
the svn version is not really build friendly, but at least it should
have more features than the normal released
one...

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dott. ing. beso