There is a new, cool, version of KOffice
Some relevant quotes are:
In version 2.1, most applications and components have improved
significantly but should still only be used by early adopters and
probably not as the primary worktool.
…
During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is
going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux.
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KOffice 2 is a much more flexible application suite than KOffice 1
ever was. The integration between the components is much stronger,
with the revolutionary Flake Shapes as the central concept. A Flake
Shape can be as simple as a square or a circle or as complex as a
chart or a music score.
With Flake, any KOffice application can handle any shape. For
instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector
graphics and Karbon can embed charts. This flexibility does not only
give KOffice unprecedented integration, but also allows new
applications to be created very easily. Such applications can e.g.
target special user groups like kids or certain professions.
Compared to OpenOffice.org:
1) not yet mature (v)
2) can be customized more easily (^)
3) it has a modern and innovative design and concept (^^)
Tags: Flake Shape, KDE, KOffice, Maemo, n900, odt, Office Suite, OpenOffice.org
For the little I saw about its UI, it seems on the same (problematic) line of its competitors: who is the sample user they have in mind? I think those UIs are overcomplicated for 99.99% of people: the office suite I’d like to have is one with the 5 functions I need reachable within one click (even if I admit using keyboard shortcuts all the time) and a quinck way to find all others contextually withut them bothering my user experience when I don’t need them.