KOffice 1.6.3 and 2.0-alpha8 Release

By Morshad 07 Jul 2008, 07:07 - 587 Views

KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE.

KOffice features a full set of applications which work together seamlessly to provide the best user experience possible.

KOffice components work together. Every program in the KOffice suite is a component which adds more functionality to the whole. You can embed any KOffice component in any other KOffice component, this is realised using the KParts object model from KDE.

KOffice, like KDE, is a free project which is released under GPL-compatible open source licenses, e.g. GPL, LGPL and BSD.

KOffice supports Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO standard. In fact, KOffice is the first office suite that used ODF as the default file format

KOffice stays in active development. This means that KOffice is continually being improved, based on reports from users, evolving software technology and implementation of new features. Not all features are implemented yet in all applications. Some components are more complete than others, but many KOffice applications are already being used for productive professional work. If you want to make KOffice better, or just implement that one little feature you really need, don't hesitate to jump in and we will happily make your changes part of the next release for everyone to use and see.

If you want to test the latest development versions of KOffice, you can download daily sources and install them. For instructions go here. Those parts of KOffice that are in the current release are also available in pre-packaged binary form and do not need to be compiled from source, unless you want the very latest versions.

If you have problems compiling KOffice, please look at the FAQs, and when that fails, e-mail the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please don't mail the authors. For reporting bugs please go to here.

Screenshots are placed per component, please look at the pages for each KOffice program. Alternatively, if you'd like to take a tour of KOffice and view some of it's more prominent features, please visit here