The Free and Open Productivity Suite

Mission statement

The goal is to provide tight (but optional) integration of the OpenOffice.org to the KDE environment beginning with KDE look and feel and ending with KDE data sources.

News

2006-03-30

Éric Bischoff has implemented support for KDE system-wide settings in OOo, see issue 63557.

2006-03-12

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 has been released. This version contains the KDE Address Book Connector by Éric Bischoff, and Crystal icons from KDE, many newly created by Nuno Pinheiro and Robert Wadley.

2005-08-25

Éric Bischoff works on an implementation of KDE Address Book Connector for OOo. The work is in progress, but it already looks really well, see here.

2005-07-22

Beginning with the m118 milestone, KDE vclplug with the Native Widget Framework (NWF) is part of the official OpenOffice.org builds. You can download it here.

Older news | Blog of Jan Holesovsky | Planet OpenOffice.org

Finished subprojects

The following features are already finished, the code is merged in the main OOo CVS and the official OOo builds contain them.

• KDE VCL plugin with KDE Native Widget Framework
  VCL plugins are a framework that makes it possible for OOo to run natively in a desktop of user's choice (more info). Native Widget Framework lets the widgets render according to the style chosen in the desktop (more info).
• KDE Address Book Connector
  Database connector for KDE Address Book so that it could be used transparently from OOo (more info).
• Crystal icons for OOo
  Crystal theme is the default in KDE (more info).
  There are still some icons that need new design, see the status page. But the finished ones are integrated in the official builds.

In progress

These features are not ready for integration yet, but most of them are available through ooo-build.

• KDE system-wide settings
  Implement support for KDE system-wide settings in OOo.
  Status: Works, and is waiting for integration.
• KDE file dialog
  Use the KDE file dialog in OpenOffice.org instead of the default one.
  Status: Works well, the code is in ooo-build, but it is not ready for integration yet.
• cuckooo
  A KDE Part which allows OpenOffice.org to be run in a Konqueror window (more info).
  Status: Works for OOo 1.x, and Éric has updated it for 2.x (but it blocks on i#64385).

Planned

• KIO support
• KDE print dialog

Background

It all began in July 2003, when I read an article about Ximian's work on improving OpenOffice.org. The effort to do something similar to Bonobo OOo integration project (probably dead now) resulted in cuckooo, a KDE Part displaying OpenOffice.org in the Konqueror. Further continuation was the base for the other subprojects.

Help is very appriciated. If you are interested, just mail me what would you like to do. The project would not be in the present state without help of Michael Meeks (vclplug), Philipp Lohmann (vclplug), Rob Wadley (icons), Nuno Pinheiro (icons), Éric Bischoff (address book). Thank you!

This project is sponsored by Novell.

2005-08-26

Jan Holesovsky /kendy at openoffice org/