Native KOffice for Mac OS X!


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"A preliminary version of KOffice has been built natively on Mac OS X. It looks like a lot of the hard part is over, and now a lot of cleaning up and bug fixes stand between Mac OS X and a free full featured office suite."

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This is extremely cool! it might look a bit rough around the edges but thats going to be fixed, can't wait for this to become fully usable. :woot:

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yes! the open source movement is coming along nicely for OS X. I can't wait till more apps like these are being ported to OS X

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Do I have to go through X11? I'm not really a fan of having to go through there... it's not very fast for me, at least using The Gimp and Open Office were horribly slow for me. It was usable, but I could have used Word on VPC faster...

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What makes this interesting is that it is built against QT/Mac which means X11 is not required. The applications run as standard Mac OS X applications (with some warts). The end goal is to package these as .app bundles and make them normal os x applications including using the standard open/save, print, and font dialogs. Obviously trolltech needs to put some work into qt/mac because it's getting woefully out of date (doesn't use pather-style widgets) but as early beta code this is promising.

I'm going to hold off a couple of weeks waiting for bundled binaries - if they don't show up then I'll build it myself.

This is one of the applications i've been waiting for, kword is good enough to replace ms word for 'homeworkish' documents and that's all I really need from my word processor these days. If progress keeps up at this pace koffice could be a useable replacement for appleworks for everyone, and even replace ms-office for those of us who aren't 100% dependent on full microsoft compatability.

It's a good time to own a mac.

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Thanks evn, that sounds really cool. I'll definitely wait for a release that I don't have to compile and stuff, since I'm more about getting my work done than trying to get the tools I need to work with ready and compatible.

Hmm, I wonder if Apple would push into KOffice like they did KHTML... we got an awesome browser out of that one, would be quite awesome to see that turnout!

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