I might, might, add to the commentary in this thread, and if anyone wants to comment please do so, it is not just "my thread" and I'm sure others can comment on Koffice under different distros.
The last few weeks I've gone to the trouble to work with Kwriter and Kspread on the same machine with different OSs.
Without naming the other OS, please accept that it is considered to be one of the "latest and greatest Ubu variants", but also not "bloated", in other words, it does not even have the Plasma Desktop.
So given that, there is a relatively simple index that I have discovered about how well the Koffice integrates into the distro.
That index is this: it is how often, and for how long, an open window "darkens" and flops to the "not responding" crash handler.
The main differentiation that I have seen is that KUbuntu has not, as yet, had the black screen of whatever except the very first time that I tried to print to a HP Laserjet 6P. It was a spreadsheet, and I had multiple pages flying from the printer because MM/Kubuntu(don't know which) had given as a default selection the 6P/MP variant and not the 6P.
Since then I have made two observations:
a) the other distro has, probably a "black screen" problem maybe in 1 of possibly ten document openings and working on the document/printing/saving to another format(OO). Kubuntu has not had a "black screen" yet.
b) Koffice(writer and spreadsheet) are NOTICEABLY faster in MM on exactly the same machine.
So..............SOMEbody has their ducks in a better row at Kubuntu, don't know particularly HOW, but it is noticeable!
good job developers!!
woodsmoke
The last few weeks I've gone to the trouble to work with Kwriter and Kspread on the same machine with different OSs.
Without naming the other OS, please accept that it is considered to be one of the "latest and greatest Ubu variants", but also not "bloated", in other words, it does not even have the Plasma Desktop.
So given that, there is a relatively simple index that I have discovered about how well the Koffice integrates into the distro.
That index is this: it is how often, and for how long, an open window "darkens" and flops to the "not responding" crash handler.
The main differentiation that I have seen is that KUbuntu has not, as yet, had the black screen of whatever except the very first time that I tried to print to a HP Laserjet 6P. It was a spreadsheet, and I had multiple pages flying from the printer because MM/Kubuntu(don't know which) had given as a default selection the 6P/MP variant and not the 6P.
Since then I have made two observations:
a) the other distro has, probably a "black screen" problem maybe in 1 of possibly ten document openings and working on the document/printing/saving to another format(OO). Kubuntu has not had a "black screen" yet.
b) Koffice(writer and spreadsheet) are NOTICEABLY faster in MM on exactly the same machine.
So..............SOMEbody has their ducks in a better row at Kubuntu, don't know particularly HOW, but it is noticeable!
good job developers!!
woodsmoke
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