[NTLUG:Discuss] Abiword, Inkscape, Koffice

[Daniel Hauck]

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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