KOffice 2.2 Beta 2
By Inge Wallin
The KOffice team is happy to announce the second beta of the upcoming 2.2 release of KOffice. This release offers many improvements and bug fixes, as can be seen in the list of changes.
A more thorough description of what is new in KOffice 2.2 in relation to version 2.1 can be seen in the announcement for version 2.2 beta 1.
Readiness for End Users and External Developers
As also mentioned in the 2.2 beta 1 announcement, the KOffice team had hoped to have time to make the user interface and available feature set ready for end users as well as make the underlying engine ready for external extension developers in time for 2.2. Unfortunately time and limited developer resources didn’t permit to reach both of these goals. The libraries have been reorganized and improved, but the user interface does still not reach the level of quality that the team wants to achieve.
Notable exceptions to this are Krita, that has seen much work on the user interface and Karbon that was already usable before.
Sources and Binary Packages
The source code to KOffice 2.2 beta 2 can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages of KOffice 2.2beta 2 will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.
