Calligra Week of Polish
This is an announcement of the Calligra Week of Polish.
We in the Calligra team have grown tired of reviews saying things like "Calligra has great potential but is not mature yet.". So we decided to take the step from potential to maturity by doing the
Calligra Week of Polish
This week start at Saturday November 3rd, and ends at Saturday November 10th.
Until then we have time to collect as many issues as possible and either register bugs at the KDE Bugzilla or put them in the list at the page above.
Did I mention that this is about polishing the applications of Calligra during the Calligra Week of Polish? ;)
We in the Calligra team have grown tired of reviews saying things like "Calligra has great potential but is not mature yet.". So we decided to take the step from potential to maturity by doing the
This week start at Saturday November 3rd, and ends at Saturday November 10th.
Until then we have time to collect as many issues as possible and either register bugs at the KDE Bugzilla or put them in the list at the page above.
Did I mention that this is about polishing the applications of Calligra during the Calligra Week of Polish? ;)
posted by ingwa at 4:26 AM
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Week of _P_olish? Have it your way! : Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, w Szczebrzeszynie :P
This is a good idea. Personally I have given a little up on using Caligra as a Libreoffice replacement. The reason for this is not about bugs, but about philosophy. It appears that Caligra devs are very proud about developing their own user interface which does not make sense for me.
I have successfully converted most of my friends from Microsoft Office to Open/LibreOffice when they started to force the ribbon interface on the users. So it was a good selling argument for Open/Libreoffice just to show that it was like old Microsoft Office plus a few extra features (like PDF-export).
At the moment I am maintaining about 10 KDE installations of my friends. I would only dare to switch it to Caligra if it would have the same or it would be very easy (one click or so) to switch to an interface which comes very close to what LibreOffice delivers. Meaning basic layout/font-format stuff would be available in the toolbar so that the overcrowded and screen space covering docker could be just turned off.
I lost Word menubar. I do all things but it is still disappeared. Even I untinstall it. Same. Do you have idea?
I'll play along. I've tested Kword and Calligra in the past and filed issues, but I've seen little progress so I've stopped. I'll start using it more intensely in the next week or two and see if progress can be made on the issues that I file. There will be many!
Thank you for taking pride in Calligra and forming this initiative. To be honest, that is as important as unbuggy software yet make devs don't take such pride in their work.
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Go Calligra Go!
First of all I want to say I _strongly_ disagree with @Unknown: ribbon is an awesome inception of an application GUI.
Said that the true is I like much more Calligra's interface (may be inspired in Apple apps!?) than the ribbon itself or the traditional and cumbersone menu system, so a big bold +1 goes for it.
Now, my two inmediate wishes are:
1. enhance the dock with a button that allows the user to fold/unfold it from/to the edge.
I know that C^H does hide the dock, but still I think a button would be more intuitive.
2. please provide an enhanced font rendering! [0]
Ok, I have to be fair here: LibreOffice, being a Java application, deals with font rendering by itself while Calligra relies (I presume) on (KDE SC) system settings.
As I'm not a big fan of anti-aliased text and in fact the first thing I do after installing KDE SC is to disable it, I can understand why Calligra's document text looks so ugly, still I think you should have a workaround for that.
Needless to say is that while antialias is system-wide disabled the only places where fonts looks ugly are in Chrome/Chromium (but they aren't native KDE applications and the websites where fonts looks ugly are *very* limited) and Calligra, a native KDE app. :P
Cheers!
[0] http://i.imgur.com/8ZZ3R.png
Please bring write functionality for MS Office documents .... it will be then mature enough for work environments.
Thanks for the great work!
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