KOffice slated again in Linux Format
This month's Linux Format, issue 80, has a negative review of KOffice 1.5. The reviewer Andy Channelle notes that KWord has superfluous features and is prone to crashing, that the spreadsheet has serious improvements over its predecessor "such as the ability to run for more than 25 minutes" but its Excel importing was poor, and that the image editor Krita "falls over seconds after trying to add an adjustment layer". Only Kexi (the database) and Kivio (flowcharting app) are recommended; the review gives the suite only 4 out of 10. (Note: it transpires that the magazine reviewed a beta version, not the final release, for which there has already been a maintenance release. See here and here.)
Comments
I had a look at it when I went into town quite quickly, and I do remember back that they gave out a poor rating for an earlier version of koffice. I believe Koffice needs development, to help it improve> koffice especially Krita will be brilliant when they are fully ported to qt 4 and have more development put into it.
Thea rating isn't a crucial point, I know that koffice will improve and improve therefore will become a true competitor to open office and other similar applications and if we don't have comment's, criticism's and bug reports, we cannot expect for applications to be improved.
Posted by: Luke Parry | May 25, 2006 6:07 PM