QT in Kingsoft Office

I'm obsessed with the weak points of GNU / Linux one of those points is trying to have a direct competitor to Microsoft Office.

I think that Firefox y Chromium win by a landslide in their respective browser category and a few days ago We talked the new consort using QT .

Also a few days ago I visited the page of Kingsoft Office for GNU / Linux (I always do it out of curiosity) and I came across the news that the company is looking for developers to help with the translation for each language and oh, surprise! I found that the Kingsoft Office GUI uses QT.

You can see it yourself from this link.

http://wps-community.org/dev.html

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The code to help with the translation of Kingsoft Office is available at:

GitHub

GitCafe

In addition, Kingsoft Office ALPHA 12 for GNU / Linux is now available:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gS6cpeZV9c


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  1.   Leo said

    How QT became fashionable. Well, for a reason.
    Good article. I did not know this application.

    1.    marianogaudix said

      There are many benefits to using Qt.
      First, Qt is cross-platform, it gets along well with JAVA and other C ++ languages ​​for objects used by Kingsoft Office.
      As Qt is multiplatform you don't have to deny the graphical interface, because the libraries are already adapted to each operating system by default.
      In other words, the program will look good on Windows, Mac OS, GNU / Linux, etc.
      LibreOffice has to use integration patches because their old libraries don't run natively on GNU / Linux and it shows.

  2.   Hello said

    the truth I do not know Kingsoft Office I use libreoffice nothing to envy to winbug works very well the integration is good and I have not had a problem I can create documents and pass them to winbug formats and vice versa to use them in the U if you want to look for weak points look in windows that you will find every day and every night and you will never get bored because there are millions if you want to look for weak points in gnu / linux look for one that is really worth it that matters or is of relative importance free options for office there are many I stay with libreoffice
    and the Kingsoft Office I hope it goes well and continues to emerge

    1.    pandev92 said

      Kingsoft office enters where libreoffice has not yet been able to impress anyone, the interface.

      1.    elruiz1993 said

        Hey, Libreoffice interface impresses… Bad way, but impresses iona

    2.    marianogaudix said

      We are talking about office suites not windows vs gnu / linux.
      I am a faithful follower of LibreOffice, I try to improve the icons in it.
      But the integration unfortunately to be honest is not good you can see it in the combo box and popup windows in GNU / Linux.
      SIDEBAR is still experimental and has many errors.
      If something I want is that one day LibreOffice has the FIREFOX user quota for example and that the OFFICE has an end equal to that of the EXPLORER browser.

  3.   Nelson lombardo said

    By far there are more important projects to work on. That need to give a ball to nonsense ...

  4.   edo said

    Which is better: Use a framework or a toolkit? Exactly.

    1.    itachi said

      Well Qt will be in fashion now but you know that it will end up in the hands of Microsoft, it has already bought the Nokia mobile subsidiary, in the end it will buy everything; and you know who owns Qt.

      I stick with GTK which is a GNU product and does not belong to anyone.

      1.    -ik- said

        True, I almost forgot that QT is in the hands of Nokia. Bad move, now I wonder if something similar to what happened with OpenOffice and MySQL will happen after Oracle bought Sun. I just hope that the QT developer community is not divided over Microsoft's purchase of Nokia.

        I think that now more than ever the initial reason why Gnome was created with GTK makes a lot of sense, to ensure the freedom of the software.

        1.    itachi said

          Amen to the last thing you say, the appearance of Gnome and Gtk was not on a whim, if not for what you say, neither more nor less.

          1.    hulk said

            They are wrong, the Gtk project was started because at the beginning Qt was not free. Which has now completely changed, it is easier to enter code to the Qt project than to Gtk: s. In addition, Nokia is no longer in charge since the last change of CEO, Digia became in charge of Qt and they said that they would maintain the same development policies.

      2.    marianogaudix said

        Nokia sold Qt to Digia about a year ago.
        In addition, the free software community has its own free Qt development that is used in KDE and its applications.
        Digia has adopted different licenses. QPL for commercial applications and GPL V2 / V3 for free software development.
        If Digia changes its licensing policy tomorrow.
        The decision would not affect the development of Qt for free software.

        1.    itachi said

          Anyway, I still don't like that it belongs to any company, be it digia, trolltech (what a name) or nokia. GtK does not belong to anyone.

          1.    itachi said

            PD Nokia still has the development core and the copyright of Qt.

          2.    marianogaudix said

            I repeat, the free software community has its own free Qt development that is used in KDE and its applications.
            All these libraries are under the GPL license. If you want ask Elav and other guys who use KDE.

          3.    hulk said

            I can say for good reason that the development of gtk is much more closed than that of Qt, since all decisions go through the conveniences of Red Hat. I know people who uploaded changes to Qt and they were approved without problems and other people who wanted to upload bug fixes to Gtk and never got them approved without giving specific explanations.

          4.    pandev92 said

            that it belongs to a community (which is also false), does not imply that what you propose is accepted in upstream, in practice there is no difference between gtk and qt, except that gtk is a thousand times more limited.

      3.    truko22 said

        Nokia decided on all its projects based on free software, including Qt, which was sold to Digia, meego among others.

      4.    edo said

        Nokia and qt have nothing to do with each other

      5.    raptor said

        Qt is not in the hands of Nokia ... it is in the hands of Digia and I doubt they will release that little chicken that lays the golden eggs.

  5.   ianpocks said

    What I do not understand because they do not unify efforts. A question Kingsoft office is free ???

    I had read there that it was not ...

    1.    -ik- said

      I think there should be a middle ground, because not having alternatives is as bad or worse than having too many options. The best I think would be that there are at most 3 alternatives for each thing, and that these are well differentiated from each other.

    2.    marianogaudix said

      It is free software in its pack (FREE) but it is not free.
      The same happens with the browser. OPERA is free but not free.
      Also PICASA, FLASH ADOBE, ADOBE READER are free but not free.

    3.    diazepam said

      KingSoft is not free. It is freeware in its basic version.

  6.   Francisco said

    I have never understood why office suites such as Kingsoft / WPS Office and Google Docs have much better compatibility with M $ Office unlike Open / LibreOffice, which is a project with many years of experience, a large community of collaborators who have been improving, etc. Then it suddenly becomes known overnight WPS Office and far surpasses it in compatibility and performance with M $ Office.
    Why is it?

  7.   k1000 said

    Well, everyone says Oh, how beautiful Kingsoft Office is, how good it looks, such and such. But the important thing? Compatibility with OpenDocument doc, docx, xlxs ...
    Nobody says that if you open a spreadsheet with formulas that are not in English, does everything get damaged, or does it recognize them?
    What I see is what I print?
    You have to look beyond appearance and analyze what this office automation is truly worth.

    PS: It is not free software, nor opensource, but if they want to translate the office automation for free.

    1.    nestor said

      The advantages of Kingsoft Office:
      -Excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office
      -Nice its interface (well, it's actually an almost exact clone of MS Office)
      -It's free (freeware), no licenses needed
      -It is light in size (about 120MB unlike MS Office which is about 4GB DVD).
      -It consumes less resources than LibreOffice, it runs faster.
      -It is multiplatform (including GNU / Linux)
      -For people who come from MS Office, it is easier to adapt to Kingsoft Office than to LibreOffice, since its interface is identical.

      The disadvantages of Kingsoft Office:
      -It's not free
      -It does not support OpenDocument

      PS: It also has WPS Office which is the same Kingsoft Office (from the same creators) with the difference that it is in English and not in Chinese

      1.    eliotime3000 said

        WPS is the original name of Kingsoft Office, which is an acronym for the applications: Write, Presentation and Spreadsheet. It is quite common for Chinese applications to have a name for the West that is different from their counterparts in their original language. However, there is an application called QQ, which itself is an instant messaging system that emerged as a clone of ICQ, but later evolved to become an instant messaging system that is at the level of the now defunct Windows Live Messenger in almost everyone.

    2.    pandev92 said

      I suppose it is normal for them to ask for translations, if they distribute the program for free. Another issue would be that they charge.

  8.   Hello said

    I stay with libreoffice I have never had compatibility problems I use it for jobs at the U and to read guides that they send me from the U bone from office $ to libreoffice and from libreoffice to office $ for me I have no complaint, it complies with what I use it for open, modify and create documents, project guides, etc. and for me it is fast, I do not find it at all slow, compatibility until now, nor a problem, and the icons and that the makeup that blames pure nonsense the most beautiful applications with the worst if you want beautiful applications go to winbug free apps are not pretty but they serve their purpose well

  9.   eliotime3000 said

    I've been using Kingson Office for GNU / Linux since the English version came out. I hope they manage to add support for OpenDocument, because OOXML works wonders.

  10.   ferchmetal said

    I already used QT before and it is very fast faster than LXDE I really recommend it a lot!

  11.   neomyth said

    It has more compatibility than LibreOffice / OpenOffice, I was surprised by a good alternative and if it continues to improve it could unseat the competition.