[kubuntu-devel] Re: seed changes in quantal

[Rick Timmis]

Its going to be an uphill struggle persuading users to switch to Calligra, over LibreOffice. Forget formats the UI will be a big hurdle

Regards and Best Wishes
Rick Timmis

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On 25 Jun 2012, at 11:48, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:28:55PM -0400, Dale Trombley wrote:
>>   I understand that libreoffice and openoffice are still easily installable.
>>   But the push to default to something that doesn't support ms.office isn't
>>   good.
> 
> It does support MS Office format, and reputedly better than
> Libreoffice, but only for import.  Currently I think that's acceptable
> because there are standardised formats which are well enough supported
> and I think it's up to us free software users to encourage people
> towards those standard formats.  Not an argument for all I'm sure and
> we can vote on it nearer beta time.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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