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[playdayz]

I have edited the first message in this thread to reflect the new version. With a lot of help from my friends aragon, raffy, ttuuxxx, and Lobster this version is much, much better and in my opinion definitely usable.

All of the problems people have helped with in this thread have been addressed: the fonts are right and look good, the dictionary is present and the spell checker works, the menus are working, and the remaining console messages are non-critical (afaik).

I have been emailing with some K-Office developers who have been very gracious with their time and I have learned from them some things that might be useful to Puppy (I will discuss these in a blog entry soon). One thing they said was that a project such as this would have to be done manually and would be "almost completely unmaintainable." Right on both counts, I think but it seems to be working now and it looks like it should be able to work with 4.1. And after that, K-Office 2!

[ttuuxxx]

Well that sounds excellent Looking forward to newer versions.
Actually I might try to add KOffice to my next living water release, I already have a stable KDE base for Bibletime, but its kind of large, 43mb.
ttuuxxx

[Lobster]

Bravo!

The test is usability.
Abiword works fine for up to about 20 pages.
Up till now I have used OpenOffice for anything larger.
Next time I will use KOffice.

I just did a logo in inkscapelite (great program inside Puppy)

next time I will use the KOffice structured drawing program
. . . which looks dead easy to use
- in combination with the drawing package perhaps

The thing I liked about kOffice was I did not have to learn it.
Intuitive and much more obvious than OpenOffice

Feedback and testing (particularly in Puppy 4.1 Beta available this week)
will I hope encourage your efforts.
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=PuppyDingo41
I for one will be making this a feature of any future Linux tmxxine

What is great, is how you are contacting the developers
and benefiting Linux in general and Puppy in particular
I look forward to your blog

Just to remind people that this thread was posted and very little feedback was offered.

Feedback and testing and reporting is what makes a developer
know his efforts are useful.
If you don't bother why should they?

woof woof

[ttuuxxx]

[magerlab]

this letter looks like russian И( pronounced [i]
looks great

i really like the things that you guys are making here on murga-linux!

i'm downloding this koffice pack to try and the new icewm from tuuxxx is very nice!

[Aitch]

Lobster: Hey I support devs!! & Lobster

BIG UP ALL DEVS - YAY

& LOBSTER - YAY

ttuuxxx - I don't code, but I am always available for research, if needed

pm me

Aitch

[raffy]

Thanks a lot ! If you want, you can blog at puppylinux.org/.

[davec51]

I tried the K-Office .sfs this morning, hoping I could substitute it for the ponderous OO. It was a big disappointment. It can't seem to handle .ppt presentations or .ods spreadsheets.

[ttuuxxx]

[playdayz]

@davec51, thanks dave, i am sorry for the disappointment.

PPT. Here is the situation as described in the KOffice online documentation:

[mikeb]

There seems to be a problem with loading/mounting the sfs.
Do you have and md5 hash for the download?

I want to experiment with other puppy versions and friend couldn't load it in dingo either.
What version of squashfs is used?

regards

mike

[playdayz]

ae3fb1478cf7c7f34ebc3fa566e1fde9 K-Office_400.sfs

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy400/k-office_400.md5.txt

Those are the md5 sum. I just downloaded and compared and its the same up and down for me.

Is this your procedure to mount?

1. Download the K-Office_400.sfs to /mnt/home (or move it there)
2. If using 4.06, rename K-Office_400.sfs to K-Office_406.sfs
3. Go to Menu: System: Bootmanager configure bootup
4. Click on Choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup
5. Select K-Office_400 (or 406) and Add it to the right side
6. Make sure to untick Ignore above user selection....and then click OK
7. Reboot Puppy
8. Check Menu under Document (also check /usr/share/applications/kde in case something might go wrong with the menu)

This is about all I know about mounting an sfs file. It will mount of course by just clicking it, but it will not run that way. This version will not run with 3.01, but should run with 4.00 and 4.06. I am sure there are things that would prevent its running correctly; I tested with default 4.00 and 4.06 so maybe create a new default installation???

I used sunburnt's progam here to make the sfs
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1059384584&t=30760

[mikeb]

Ok thanks for the quick reply and info.

I checked and the md5 says my download is good so it must be a squashfs issue as it will not click and mount. Diefferent squashfs versions are not backward compatible.
Do you know which kernel you are using....2.1.21 or 2.6.25?

regards

mike


ps thanks for working on this project.

[playdayz]

in 4.06 it is 2.6.25.15

I made the sfs in 4.00 which is 2.6.21.7

the same sfs works in both

you are using 4.00 or 4.06?

[Béèm]