Hi :)
You are welcome. I just stumbled on that info just before reading your post.
I
had heard of Kexi and Calligra before and had a quick hunt around their site
and
wikipedia but just before your post i'd had to look a bit deeper. Spooky
timing! :)
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: jorge <jrodrigue...@cpcecr.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 22 August, 2011 7:41:21
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Kexi
Hi
Thank you Tom for this adicional information.
Regards,
Jorge Rodríguez
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El lun, 22-08-2011 a las 02:54 +0100, Tom Davies escribió:
> Hi :)
> Kexi is the database app in Calligra. Calligra is a fork of KOffice.
> KOffice
> gave all their remaining database devs to Calligra and dropped their version
> of
>
> the database. Calligra seems very active.
>
>
> Unfortunately Calligra and KOffice are really quite dependant on the K
> Desktop
> Environment (KDE). They do have a port for Windows (and possibly Mac, i'm
> not
> sure). Calligra have also developed a few apps that can work on mobile
> platforms but that doesn't include Kexi yet.
>
>
> So, the non-KDE versions of distros are going to ask for a lot of
> dependencies, probably Qt libraries and stuff. You will probably need to add
> the appropriate official repos.
>
>
> For Ubuntu you can try
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> to install all of Kubuntu into Ubuntu but you might want to revert to your
>Gnome
>
> or Unity DE at the login prompt (have a look along the bottom task-bar/panel
> when you get the login prompt).
>
> A few people are now working on Base. A couple of devs and i think 1 for
> documentation (might be 2). It is a tough challenge but that makes it fun
> right?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: jorge <jrodrigue...@cpcecr.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Mon, 22 August, 2011 1:30:27
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Kexi
>
> Hi
>
> Many days ago some of us were talking about BASE and its problems. One
> of you noted about "Kexi" base program that's part of Office Suite of
> KDE ... as alternative of BASE.
>
> I installed that Office suite in Fedora 15 and opened access 2003 data
> base that I have. I can't probe with 2007 access data base because I
> don't have an example of that.
>
> I'm not use it a lot but it looks good. I suggest to others to test it
> if have time and are interested because it would be an alternative to
> BASE if it won't improve in the next time.
>
> I have to say that the KDE complete Office suite (Included Kexi) isn't
> in Ubuntu 10.04 lts repositories. I think is a recently improved program
> of KDE.
>
> I hope this post help some one though it isn't part of LO.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Atentamente,
>
> Jorge Rodríguez
>
>
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