KOffice 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Released
By Inge Wallin
The KOffice team is happy to announce the first release candidate of KOffice 2.1. As usual, the team has worked diligently and has now been able to remove all the release blocker bugs. See the full changelog for the details.
The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread.
One of the applications that we have not talked much about so far is KPlato. KPlato is short for the K Planning Tool, and is an application for project management. It was released as technology preview in 2.0, but in 2.1 we believe it to be usable for smaller projects and for early adopters. We expect that KPlato will bring KOffice to new categories of users who need our unique cross platform project management application.
KPlato quick introduction and tutorial
KPlato has features including graphical and list based task dependency editor, task status view, and a schedules view. It can also calculate and display performance indexes, etc for earned value management. It has support for scripting via the common KOffice scripting interface and a number of scripts are provided with the application. It comes with a tutorial to introduce new users to the concepts.
KPlato has support for external workflow by issuing work packages that can be issued to project members. These people can use a separate utility called KPlatoWork to report back to the main project. Last but not least, KPlato can export to the iCalendar format so that it integrates with many applications, including Kontact, the KDE personal information manager.
KPlato dependencies view
Please try out KPlato and tell us what you think at the KOffice forums. There is still time to fix the last few bugs, and all feature requests will be used as input for the next versions.
This is the last release before the final release of KOffice 2.1. We ask all our users who want to help with the process to try it out and report remaining bugs. As usual we are especially interested in bugs that cause data loss or incompatibilities with other office suites such as OpenOffice.org. This time we expect there to be few, so we are increasingly interested in finding them before the real release.
Many Linux distributions will have packages of KOffice 2.1RC1. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download it from download.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.
Update about Kexi:
Although Kexi is continuously developed, we don’t manage to deliver the final version of the application on time. It is scheduled for KOffice 2.2. Users are encouraged to stay with 1.1.x series if possible.
October 29th, 2009 at 03:35
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October 29th, 2009 at 10:00
Well done guys, You are ROCK.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:22
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October 29th, 2009 at 12:46
good job!
October 29th, 2009 at 13:42
Keep on rocking!
Kudos!
October 29th, 2009 at 15:48
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October 29th, 2009 at 18:24
[...] Wallin poinformował o wydaniu aplikacji KOffice 2.1 RC1. Wydanie to zawiera ogromną ilość poprawionych błędów. Większość z nichj dotyczyła [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 01:44
[...] KOffice 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Released The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread. [...]
October 30th, 2009 at 02:29
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October 30th, 2009 at 18:38
How can I contribute to testing?
October 30th, 2009 at 20:48
What KOffice need to make a breakthrough
I think that Koffice is a great piece of software, and I am pretty much annoyed with clumsy OO. But how can it get real share on the office apps market.
I think the answer is through collaboration. This is the way which AbiWord have chosen recently when launched its abicollab.net. A product like that would really broaden the audience of KOffice. I think it makes even some sense to start with writing a plugin for KO to workwith abicollab.net, of course, if it is technically feasible.
But the real killer feature would be serverless, distributed collaboration, done in a P2P way – a mix of torrents and version control system. I will briefly describe the idea: I want to write collaboratively a document with my friend in another part of the city, country, world. I send him an invite (just like when I invite somebody to share my screen in KRDC) and he connects to the document stored on my computer.
That means – real-time collaboration with no need of GoogleDocs, Google Wave or any other intermediary of “cloud services”.
In case of we got disconnected and everybody works on his own cached version of the document, as soon as both of us are online we reconnect and sync our versions so that everbody could see other’s changes and act upon them (accept, decline, merge, etc).
October 31st, 2009 at 01:52
Next time, please don’t use an installation with weird font sizes for the screenshots.
November 1st, 2009 at 01:26
Hi,
the downlaod link is broken:
download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/koffice-2.1.91/src/koffice-2.1.91.tar.bz2 <- now
download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/koffice-2.0.91/src/koffice-2.0.91.tar.bz2 <- file exist
November 1st, 2009 at 12:27
[...] Hier geht es zum Download des Quelltextes von KOffice 2.1. [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 12:41
The downloads to the source is »broken«. Seems to be a typo, because the link points to …koffice-2.1.91…, while there is koffice-2.0.91 on the mirrors.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:58
good job!
keep working on MS Office filters