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Calligra Office 4.0 is Out! (carlschwan.eu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Calligra is the office and graphics suite developed by KDE and is the successor to KOffice. With some traditional parts like Kexi and Plan having an independent release schedule, this release only contains the four following components: Calligra Words: Word Processor Calligra Sheets: Spreadsheet Application Calligra Stage: Presentation Application Karbon: Vector Graphics Editor The most significant updates are that Calligra has been fully transitioned to Qt6 and KF6, along with a major overhaul of its user interface.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's nice to see the suite is still being developed, and kudos to such a small team for making such polished software.

My only caution is the sidebar design decision may be problematic? That's an awfully large amount of screen real estate being taken up compared to the Tab/Ribbon design used by other Office software. That is particularly important as it reduces the width available for a document and so squashes reducing the size of text etc on screen. Some of that may just be preference but that might also have impact for accessibility for people with sight impairment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Huh? That's the best thing about Calligra by far. Why waste valuable vertical real estate on toolbars and ribbons when you can shove a sidebar in all of that empty wasted margin space? Plus, the whole thing is customizable. It doesn't have to be a sidebar if you don't like sidebars.