Koffice 1.4

markw · 2005-06-23 03:04:06

koffice 1.4 is out.
Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/22/1 … 85&tid=121

I can't wait to try it out.

Mark

arooaroo · 2005-06-23 03:15:45

Anything in particular that it offers that you are excited about?

Haven't tried KOffce for a long time - ever since OpenOffice came on the scene I guess. The current beta of OpenOffice2 is significantly better that 1.4 IMHO - if only for the start-up times.

May give Koffice another whirl - just to see where it's up to.

(Of course, I use Latex for "real" documents )

tpowa · 2005-06-23 06:01:39

be patient, package will probably show up on weekend, they just released 1.4a that needs again a recompile and i18n has changed much.

Duke · 2005-06-23 11:45:02

No way? I'm soo happy! I have been waiting for Krita now for a while (I need an image editing program, and am not a fan of the Gimp interface) and as an overall KOffice user, this is great news!

markw · 2005-06-23 14:55:17

arooaroo wrote:

Anything in particular that it offers that you are excited about?
Haven't tried KOffce for a long time - ever since OpenOffice came on the scene I guess. The current beta of OpenOffice2 is significantly better that 1.4 IMHO - if only for the start-up times.
May give Koffice another whirl - just to see where it's up to.
(Of course, I use Latex for "real" documents )

Krita and Kexi, and the fact that its a new version

P.S. Screenshots:
http://www.kexi-project.org/screenshots.html
http://www.koffice.org/krita/screenshots.php

Duke · 2005-06-24 16:56:49

Of course Latex is my preferred choice for real documents as well, and for that I use Kile (KDE Latex frontend), I really wish it would become part of KOffice though, it really does the job well for me.

EDIT: Was typing this at my girlfriends place, on a french keyboard, so everything came out weird because I forgot it was a different layout, sorry.

IceRAM · 2005-06-26 21:24:43

I have a feeling koffice drags in mysql and postgresql as dependencies. Is there any change of NOT making them dependencies? (maybe introduce some install notes).

dp · 2005-06-28 21:44:36

IceRAM wrote:

I have a feeling koffice drags in mysql and postgresql as dependencies. Is there any change of NOT making them dependencies? (maybe introduce some install notes).

[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ pacman -Qo /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kexidb_mysqldriver.so
/opt/kde/lib/kde3/kexidb_mysqldriver.so is owned by koffice 1.4.0a-1
[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ ldd /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kexidb_mysqldriver.so | grep mysql
        libmysqlclient.so.14 => /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14 (0x40012000)
[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14 is owned by mysql 4.1.12-1

IceRAM · 2005-06-29 08:36:01

I was a bit unclear.

I didn't want to say Koffice doesn't have those dependencies, I wanted to say that Koffice could work without them (like it does for me right now after installing koffice with pacman -Sd koffice)

Oh, and postgresql is brought in by libpqxx (which I accidentaly installed).

Everything seems to be working without mysql installed.

dp · 2005-06-29 12:06:21

IceRAM wrote:

I was a bit unclear.
I didn't want to say Koffice doesn't have those dependencies, I wanted to say that Koffice could work without them (like it does for me right now after installing koffice with pacman -Sd koffice)
Oh, and postgresql is brought in by libpqxx (which I accidentaly installed).
Everything seems to be working without mysql installed.

can you run kexi without having mysql installed?

IceRAM · 2005-06-29 22:00:16

Yes. I don't know what to do in it that would require MySQL though, nor I have a MySQL db running.

You could try to break Kexi with "pacman -Rd mysql" if you want.

P.S. I haven't tried removing postgresql yet.

dp · 2005-06-29 22:36:33

IceRAM wrote:

Yes. I don't know what to do in it that would require MySQL though, nor I have a MySQL db running.

very interesting fact ... that means i can move mysql to makedepends

IceRAM wrote:

You could try to break Kexi with "pacman -Rd mysql" if you want.

unfortunately i cannot, because mysql server needs to be running on this machine ... and i have no other machine available atm

IceRAM wrote:

P.S. I haven't tried removing postgresql yet.

lanrat · 2005-06-30 10:38:26

Theoretically you should first make separate libmysqlclient package (including headers) and then it should be a runtime dependency for kexi:
http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikivi … xiPackages

Then mysql package would need provides=(libmysqlclient) and conflicts=(libmysqlclient) so you would be able to install kexi with libmysqlsclient only (desktop and remote mysql server situation) or full mysql package.

dp · 2005-06-30 10:58:34

lanrat: you are right ... but libmysqlclient is not yet available in arch - i will address this problem in discussion with other devs - hope we have this solved soon

thanx for reporting this ... can somebody open a bug against koffice and another bug as wish for libmysqlclient? ... just as reminder

Duke · 2005-06-30 14:17:57

I can't seem to get Krita to work. When I try to run it from a shell I get the following error:

koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in krita's desktop file. Check your installation !

I also find it a bit weird that Kexi and Krita aren't in my KDE menus while everything else from KOffice is.

Other than that this new release works fine and Kexi also works fine for me (when I run it from a shell).

Duke · 2005-07-18 22:43:38

No one can help me out with that problem?

tpowa · 2005-07-19 06:00:08

on your system must be something broken on mine it runs smooth and i have the menu entries.

Legout · 2005-07-26 08:23:11

I´ve got the same error

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