I had the pleasure of attending Akademy this year–my first time. Not only that, the organizers were actually crazy enough to let me give a talk! In it, I discuss my view of how we can systematically improve the competitiveness and reach of KDE Plasma and KDE apps, and what you can do to be a part of this effort. This master plan is what guides my KDE work. I talk about how the Usability & Productivity initiative fits into the plan, but the plan itself is much more ambitious. If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s a method to my madness… here it is!
If you’re interested, the Akademy organizers have posted a video of it:
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I think we should be scared you have a World Domination blog category.
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I hate M$ products, but i’m not big fan of LO too. I like Calligra, that’s why i’m contributor in the project, it should be more widely use, also it should give some love to Kabon too. M$ products are disasters and every time you try to make compatibility with them is just waste of time.
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This! Karbon is dying. It needs much love. It has potential. Not even Inkscape is as quick as Karbon for opening and editing vectors.
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It’s not dying, i take care of it.
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Should I be using Calligra instead of LibreOffice? What’s the elevator pitch? Does it work as well? Are all the apps actively developed?
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Sure not, you can use whatever you want. You can try them, report bugs, etc. I mean they can be used much more to have higher quality, they are maintained as well. Mainly goals to be used open formats than closed ones.
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CalligraOffice is former KOffice. So it’s Qt/KDE native and it’s much more lightweight. But not as advanced and much more bugged, including many problems with font/layout rendering (in the past it required taking special care of installing fonts and proper config for freetype)
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I think a huge obstacle is the Nvidia support (tearing under Xorg and no Wayland support). Maybe a funding campaign could solve this.
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Most issues with Plasma on Nvidia fall in Nvidia’s responsibility. With closed-source drivers there is not much the Plasma devs can do about it
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Also, Nouveau rocks!
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