KOffice 1.6 beta 1

KOffice is een opensource-officepakket voor de desktopomgeving KDE op Linux- en Unix-systemen. Het bestaat uit een aantal verschillende applicaties zoals een tekstverwerker (KWord), een spreadsheetprogramma (KSpread), een presentatieprogramma (KPresenter), een tekenprogramma (Krita) en een databaseprogramma (Kexi). De ontwikkelaars hebben de eerste bètaversie van KOffice 1.6 uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:

Highlights:

The main energy of the KOffice developement team is currently focused on the revolutionary 2.0 version that will be based on KDE 4 and Qt 4. The 1.6 release is intended mainly as a feature release for the two fastest developed components: Krita and Kexi. However, other components are being developed too. Here are the highligts of this preview of KOffice 1.6:

• OpenDocument support in KFormula
  The formula editor of KOffice now supports OpenDocument and uses it as its default file format.
• Scripting support in KSpread
  KSpread, the spreadsheet program, now supports scripting in python and Ruby just like Krita and Kexi.

Principal Improvements:

Kexi (Database application):
• Further enhancements in the database connectivity library.
• Further improvements in Table Designer (schema altering without removing table contents, "Image" data type)
• Data aware combo boxes (drop down lists)
• Data-aware "Image Box" widget in Forms and Table View
Krita (Pixel based graphics editor):
• New filters has been added (random noise, random pick, lens correction, filters from krita-plugins...)
• New tool for drawing bezier curves, magnetic selection, perspective transformation and healing has been added
Kugar (Reporting tool):
• Kugar's templates are now visible in the startup dialog.
KPlato (Project management tool):
• Added PERT calculation for estimated value based on optimistic, expected and pessimistic value.
• The distribution used is dependent on the setting of Risk.
KFormula (Mathematical formula editor):
• OpenDocument and MathML are now native format. And OpenDocument is now the default file format, and most of the standard is now supported

A more complete list of changes is available at the KOffice web site.