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Office viewer for Maemo5 based on KOffice

Thomas Zander — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:45:46 +0000

KOffice2 is still a fresh set of office tools. We released the 2.0, called platform release, just 3 months ago and work continues to make the suite more stable and to add the minimum set of features people should be able to expect.

All KOffice community members are continuing to do an awesome job with many bugs being closed and lots of love going into all the applications. This means that the 2.1 release will already be much closer to being ready for the big crowds.
We got a little help now too. Nokia has packaged KOffice for Maemo 5 environment with a new UI for Maemo 5!, This means that KOffice can run in the new Maemo device(N900) . Just to clarify, this is not a commercial product of Maemo but is a contribution by Nokia to Open Source. The developed application will be made available for download in a typical release-early release-often. Bugs will likely exist in this version.

This is exciting news as KOffice will be available to a huge audience and Nokia has been helping to fix bugs and make MS-Office document support more robust.

Nokia has created a document viewer for the Maemo 5 platform (Fremantle) based on KOffice and uses the KWord and KPresenter applications to load and display word processor and presentation documents. The application uses a custom user interface specifically designed to fit in with the Maemo 5 style.

Part of the projects goals is to help KOffice mature its loading and rendering of MSOffice documents.

It is important to point out that all contributions to KOffice have been made directly inside the KOffice subversion repository. The KOffice document viewer for Maemo 5 will be shown for the first time at Maemo Summit in Amsterdam between October the 9th and 11th. This release is a bit unfortunately timed as the official KOffice2.1 release will likely be one or two weeks later making the Fremantle office use the release candidate at first.

I think its very exciting to have the hard work of all the KOffice community members be rewarded by having the document reader be based on our hard work. I’m very thankful to be working on the project and I’m looking forward to continued cooperation between Nokia and the KOffice community.

Bugfixing lists

Thomas Zander — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:41:54 +0000

In a previous blog I mentioned a lot of new features we are working on. With the release of the beta the time for working on new features is over and now we are in full bug fixing frenzy.
A question that recently came up in the KOffice community was when we can honestly say that KOffice is ready for the end user. One answer which I personally like is that features that are present should just work. Fully, and well tested. The project I did in the last week was work on list items. I’ve tried to find all the bugs I could on this topic and make sure they all got fixed for the 2.1 release Naturally this includes writing unit tests to avoid them regressing later. And last I think it is only complete with a blog entry explaining the progress KOffice made.

The fixes were mostly focused on getting list items positioned correct as the rest of the features already worked in 2.0. Right to left lists are a bit tricky and they were basically broken by placing the counter in the margins.

The following ‘before’ and ‘after’ screen-shots of my test document probably show the progress much better.

First the new status and for reference the old one below. (click to see full size)

Counters in 2.1

Counters with bugs

KOffice 2.0.2 Released

Inge Wallin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:17:21 +0000

The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.0.2, the second bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice 2.0. This is likely the last bugfix release of 2.0 before starting the 2.1 series in October this year.

More details of the 2.0.2 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

You can find source and binary packages for 2.0.2 here.

KOffice 2.0.1 Released

Inge Wallin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:23:26 +0000

Today, exactly one month since the release of KOffice 2.0.0, the KOffice team releases the first bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no new features but lots of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice 2.0. We are planning at least two more bugfix releases of 2.0 before starting the 2.1 series in October this year.

More details of the 2.0.1 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages, one more than 2.0.0. The new language for this release is Norwegian Bokmål, one of the two written forms of Norwegian.

You can find source and binary packages for 2.0.1 here.