<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> Hello Everybody Via this mail I would like to give compliments to the developers of the new KDE office suite "Calligra". Today, I installed it in Kubuntu 11.10 via the regular ppa backport repository. I really love it immediately! It looks like a very adequate toolkit for creative and artistic word processing, sheet calculations, presentations, etc. Of course, there are still a few rough edges to deal with in the further development of Calligra. When observing them, I will share them via this forum - of course, in a constructive way. Today, I have experimented a bit with the word processor as wel as with "Brain Dump". In the word procesor, I found two major points of attention so far. I have looked for a possibility for export to .doc, .docx, pdf and other formats. So far, I only found a way to export to PDF: File > export to PDF. For the other formats, I have looked under FILE > save as and FILE > export. I did not find it there. I will keep using LibreOffice next to Calligra until this essential feature will be available. In LibreOffice, there is a effective way to establish the basic styles and formatting, like the default font: FORMAT > styles and formatting (F11). Is there something similar in Calligra? With respect to "Braindump": is this meant for mind mapping? I am wondering whether two closely interrelated mind mapping projects also could be integrated somehow in the Calligra family: <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">"Freeplane" (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net);</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">"Docear", http://www.docear.org/</li></ul> The combination of Freeplane, Docear, Braindump and all other Calligra packages could create together a very powerful mind mapping, creativity boosting tool box. Finally, I am looking for a widget for the panel: for launching all the Calligra applications. Another good option could be a widget for ALL the office applications. Now, when copying the office typing machine symbol to the panel, I get a duplicate of the K-launcher, however, with the typing machine symbol. Here, my first reflection on Calligra finishes. Respectfully yours, Bas Roufs. -- Bas G. Roufs MA Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht The Netherlands E. BasRoufs@gmail.com Mob. +31 6 446 835 10 Tel. +31 30 785 40 Websites in construction: <ul type="circle" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://basroufs.eu/">BasRoufs.eu</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://viaconsensus.nl/">Viaconsensus.nl</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://rainbowgathering.eu/">RainbowGathering.eu</a> </li></ul> Open source OS: <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Linux Kubuntu 11.10.</a> </body></html>