KDE version of OpenOffice?

[Basil Fowler]

I think that you have made some excellent points.

On the other hand, the self-contained nature of Open Office allows it to be 
run under many window managers.  A specific KDE port is no doubt feasible - 
it just takes resources.  The question arises as to whether a port to KDE 
would be the best use of the available resources at this time. 

Again, look from where OO has come from - namely Star Office.   This was a 
self-contained single desktop program.  Star Office was very clumsy because 
of its monolithic construction.  The great advantage of OO is that the 
various functionalities are now separate.

The development of software follows very closely the way evolution works in 
nature.  This is especially true in the Open Source field.  Let everyone make 
their suggestions.  Let various approaches be tried.  What comes out on top 
will be determined by a mixture of chance and technical superiority.

Best regards

Basil Fowler

BTW - for really complex documents - especially those containing maths - the 
LyX - LaTeX combination is far superior to OO or other wordprocessors. I use 
OO exclusively to read .doc and .xls files that I receive from time to time.
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