What happened to KOffice and Scribus?

Oh yes! I forgot - KOffice is called Calligra these days.

Calligra isn't dead, it had a new release less than a month ago. I'd prefer a LO port but I would've thought Calligra would've been easier - especially as KOffice has already been (mostly) ported in the past.

Thanks for the links kim1963!

I'll try that Scribus package out soon but is there any reason anyone knows of why its not available from Haikudepot yet? Maybe there is a lot of extra work to get things packaged for the depot?

TFO = JAVA = :/

Its better than having no office suites though so I'll prob try the demo.

I've just tried TFO by instaling kim1963's package from here:

http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/haiku/java-apps/java-office-suites/...

Unfortunately Write doesn't show a page and so you can't enter any text and neither the menus nor the cells get displayed for me under Calc.

ThinkFree don't seem to officially support Haiku or BeOS so we're probably out of luck unless someone can fix the JDK port so it all works properly.

It seems Sum-It has some support for importing .xls files but it hasn't worked well in my (limited) testing.

It would be great to see Sum-It get improved to the point where it can at least load and correctly handle the majority basic spreadsheets. I'm not talking about achieving parity with Excel or even LO/OO Calc but just be able to cover the basics.

Haiku's limited developer resources are probaby better focused on a LO port but I think many would still like a lightweight, open source and native Haiku spreadsheet which is what sum-it could evolve into if somebody put the effort in.

Paradoxon:

Thanks for the links. I tried building your fork but it said it couldn't find fribidibi or whatever but I've got both the gcc2 and 4 versions installed and I successfully used them to build the Abiword recipe in ports. From what you say about it its prob not really worth me bothering unless I wanted to try to fix it. It may take more effort but Calligra seems like a better bet to me, plus that'd bring us a spreadsheet.

richienyhus:

That's interesting but not really what I'm looking for, thanks. I'm sure others will find a use for something like that.

paradoxon:

The fribidi depot packages got updated recently so thats no longer the issue when trying to build your AbiWord fork, instead:

checking for
                gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0
                libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
        ... configure: error: Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
Package libglade-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libglade-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libglade-2.0' found
make: *** [config.status] Error 1

Both paradoxons fork and the fork PM linked successfuly build if you just run `make` but in both cases `make install` fails with an error like:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/boot/home/src/AbiWord/abi/src/wp'
 
 - abidistfiles not found
  'make canonical', 'make install', and 'make distribution' require 
  the abidistfiles/ package be available as a peer to the abi/ tree.
 
make[1]: *** [canonical] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/boot/home/src/AbiWord/abi/src'
make: *** [install] Error 2

However, it seems you can get away with not doing a complete install and just run the binary. Paradoxon's fork does let you open .doc files but it is flawed in that you cannot scroll through the document if it is a multi-page doc but thats better than the other forks that just crash as soon as you try to load a .doc.

TFO seems to be the only usable option now, I just hope we are able to get it to print. I suspect the jdk port isn't aware of or compatible with Haiku's print server.

forart.it:

It seems TiltOS hasn't been updated in 5 years. I highly doubt its going to work under recent Haiku builds as it predates the package management etc by some time. Even if it did work, Calligra greatly improved Office import and I don't think Koffice supported ODF 5 years ago so I don't think its even worth trying.

Thanks for the link anyway! :)