Comments on all mine!: Calligra...

Could the problem with the docx perhaps be derived...

2011-12-17T15:32:50.848+01:00

Could the problem with the docx perhaps be derived from its file name?
I noticed it contains spaces and Spanish accented characters.

Well, an image is more than a thousand words: here...

2011-12-10T14:19:04.014+01:00

Well, an image is more than a thousand words: here you have the links to ImageShack:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/412/errorcalligra.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/errorcalligra2.png/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/libreofficevscalligralo.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/522/libreofficevscalligraca.png/

First of all, thanks for the work you and your fel...

2011-12-10T13:58:09.032+01:00

First of all, thanks for the work you and your fellows are doing with Calligra.

Having read your post, I decided to try the last beta of Calligra in a VM with Chakra Linux, but I had an error trying to open a docx file: "Unable to open /.../File.docx. Reason: Invalid document. The file maindoc.xml doesn't exist". I know it can be a issue related to Chakra package, but I installed all that I thought was necessary: calligra-tools, calligra-templates, calligra-pics...

Even a odt file with several styles had problems: the images it contains don't fit the previous text properly, the whole document have several changes if it is open with LO or with Calligra Words.

I took several snapshots with KSnapshot, but i don't have a imageshack o picasa account, so I can't to give you links.

Source services fail on 3rd service - set service ...

2011-12-09T15:54:53.667+01:00

Source services fail on 3rd service - set service in spec; if one doesn't add this service it succesfully downloads the archive, but then spec file doesn't know that it should use the new tarball

@hrvojes: will take a look at it, tnx! @nightrose...

2011-12-09T13:01:07.110+01:00

@hrvojes: will take a look at it, tnx!

@nightrose: sorry, that short history part might have been a bit too short. But considering it wasn't anything like a 50/50 split I doubt the relevance of this piece of history these days - no KOffice repo has been showing activity in the last 3 months in any case...

Jos, it would be helpful if you could stop implyin...

2011-12-09T10:50:40.490+01:00

Jos, it would be helpful if you could stop implying that the split was the problem of one person. It was not and you know that. It isn't helping. It's done and we should move on.

Cypher: Please try it again and tell us what you t...

2011-12-09T09:36:38.726+01:00

Cypher: Please try it again and tell us what you think. Just a couple of weeks ago a number of bugs regarding inheritance in styles were discovered and fixed. This was the immediate reason that we extended the beta programme from 3 beta versions to 5. Version 2.4 beta 4 is out now and contains the style fixes. Beta 5 will be out next week.

Unfortunately you are still right that you cannot manipulate all aspects of a style yet. That is something that we will work hard on for the 2.5 release. But you should be able to use the full potential of the styles that you already have. And if you cannot, we are extremely interested in reports about it.

I tried the beta version in OpenSUSE 12.1, but I m...

2011-12-08T22:37:15.482+01:00

I tried the beta version in OpenSUSE 12.1, but I must say that I found it too weak for my personal needs. I write lots of documents, so I tested Words first. I tried to import a document written with LibreOffice that uses background images for pages, and lots of styles (I love styles, they come very handy when creating professional documents, whitepapers, articles, ...) But unfortunately, I quickly discovered that background images were nowhere supported, that the styles and the GUI that goes with it are completely unusable, let alone using styles for other things than paragraphs, i.e. pages or characters.

All in all, my feeling about Words is that it looks more like a photo editor with text editing capabilities added to it than a full-blown document writing environment.

I quickly went back to LibreOffice, but I will definitely keep an eye on Calligra, and I hope it will quickly become at least as rich and usable as LibreOffice.

Thank you for putting your energy in making the next-gen of office suites a reality.

Here's my package, for some reason it's al...

2011-12-08T21:59:56.473+01:00

Here's my package, for some reason it's also broken (only for calligra, other KDE stuff works):
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=calligra&project=home%3Asumski%3AKDE%3AUnstable%3APlayground