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Calligra is the office and graphics suite developed by KDE and is the successor to KOffice. With some traditional parts like Kexi and Plan having an independent release schedule, this release only contains the four following components: Calligra Words: Word Processor Calligra Sheets: Spreadsheet Application Calligra Stage: Presentation Application Karbon: Vector Graphics Editor The most significant updates are that Calligra has been fully transitioned to Qt6 and KF6, along with a major overhaul of its user interface.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

So cool to see this one coming back from the dead ! Well done ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love that Calligra exists as alternative to LibreOffice.

But last time I tested it, I used it to create and save a .docx file that only included one word: "test".
Then I opened it again in Calligra, and it turned into a document with 6 pages, with the word "test" on each of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Calligra's support for OOXML files is truly garbage and shouldn't be used. Only use it with OpenDocument files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I loved Calligra. I left it for LibreOffice in favor of more stability and feature support, but I loved Calligra's approach to document making, and Karbon's canvas was something that inspired creativity. I hope this marks a path of future improvements and revival of the suite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I tried it, it just deleted a 20 page document that i needed, after a crash. Fuck it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I love that people have picked up the development process back up. Last time I've checked Calligra, the entire suite was in a pitiful state

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Whoa, I was convinced Karbon wasn't going to see any further Calligra releases. Seemed to have zero maintainers last I checked, thought it'd go the way of Braindump and Author.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's nice to see the suite is still being developed, and kudos to such a small team for making such polished software.

My only caution is the sidebar design decision may be problematic? That's an awfully large amount of screen real estate being taken up compared to the Tab/Ribbon design used by other Office software. That is particularly important as it reduces the width available for a document and so squashes reducing the size of text etc on screen. Some of that may just be preference but that might also have impact for accessibility for people with sight impairment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Huh? That's the best thing about Calligra by far. Why waste valuable vertical real estate on toolbars and ribbons when you can shove a sidebar in all of that empty wasted margin space? Plus, the whole thing is customizable. It doesn't have to be a sidebar if you don't like sidebars.