[NTLUG:Discuss] Abiword, Inkscape, Koffice

[Leroy Tennison]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> I rather like OO.o if only because it's very platform independent. 
> Being able to run OO.o on Mac, on Windows and Linux makes doing some 
> kinds of work rather nice.
> 
> Abiword really looked like MS Word.  Koffice I have no idea about... I 
> don't like KDE for one really stupid reason -- I don't like the way it 
> feels... okay, more than one stupid reason... I also don't like that 
> everything has a K in front of it.  Koffice?  Come on!  Makes me think 
> of someone checking me for a hernia or something.
> 
> I've never really used OO Draw and that's for a few reasons:
> 1. It doesn't get played with as my distro is Fedora and they don't even 
> make a shortcut, icon or menu item for it.  (It is available though... I 
> just opened it from the command line)
> 2. It seems really simplistic and I'm not sure where a simple drawing 
> fits into my work at the moment.  (Perhaps that will change tomorrow?)
> 3. For anything graphical, I usually head for the gimp.  Even though 
> it's generally over-kill for simple stuff, I can usually polish up some 
> nice lookin' turds with it!
> 
> I'm not sure why those things were actually "pulled" from the distros 
> you use, but all of those packages listed are available in Fedora 8. 
> (Just tested that as I was composing this email and now I'm going to try 
> Inkscape out...first time!)
> 
> 
> Rev. wRy wrote:
>> gnumeric is gone too.  wasn't that hard to compile, but i had no luck
>> with abiword.  gnucash was a pain, but i had to have it.
>>
>> personally, i don't care for OO, but ended up having to install it
>> anyways. 
>>
>> :(
>>
>> R
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:07 -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> Can someone tell me why these have been dropped from inclusion in the 
>>> major distributions such as Red hat and SuSE?  Is it because they are 
>>> junk?  Is it just because they "lost" the "market presence" battle?
>>>
>>> How does Abiword compare to OO Writer?
>>>
>>> How does Koffice compare to OO?
>>>
>>> If it is a fair comparison, how does Inkscape compare to OO Draw?
>>>
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Thanks for the reply, looks like I may be installing Fedora Core 8 so I 
can look at these kinds of things.