From: Erwin Tenhumberg (erwin.tenhumberg@Sun.COM)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 19:56:36 EDT
KOffice will switch to OpenOffice.org file format
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"We will switch to the OASIS (OpenOffice.org) file format
for all the major applications. This has many advantages:
* file format shared with the OpenOffice.org suite,
we don't have to reinvent the wheel
* we'll be able to drop our OOo import filters and
use the export filters as a compatibility layer for
older KOffice versions documents
* we can actively participate in the standard file
format creation in the the case of Kexi and Kugar
which are applications that don't currently exist
in OOo
This is also a good opportunity to switch the names of
our MIME types to the vnd.kde... naming scheme and to
drop our KOffice-specific file extensions. It's again
the users who will benefit from this step, e.g. on
Windows it will be possible to open files created with
a KOffice application using the OpenOffice.org suite."
http://dot.kde.org/1061919133/
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