Calligra Gemini displaying a presentation Sailfish Office reuses the Qt Quick components from Calligra Active. Jolla continued Nokia's efforts on a smartphone version. On 24 March 2013, KDE developer Sebastian Sauer released Coffice, a Calligra-based document viewer, for Android. In December 2012, KDE, KO GmbH, and Intel released Krita Sketch, a variant of Calligra's Krita painting application, for Windows 7 and 8. Ĭalligra Active was launched in 2011 after the Plasma Active initiative to provide a document viewer similar to Calligra Mobile but for tablet computers. Along with the launch of the Nokia N9 smartphone, Nokia released its own Poppler and Calligra-based office document viewer under GPL. The first alpha version was made available in January 2010. Later Nokia hired KO to assist them with a full-fledged mobile version, including a touchscreen-friendly user interface which was presented by Nokia during Maemo Conference in October 2009. Calligra Mobile's development was initiated in summer 2009 and was first shown during Akademy / Desktop Summit 2009 by KO GmbH as a simple port of KOffice to Maemo. Ĭalligra 2.4 launched with two mobile-oriented user interfaces: Calligra Mobile and Calligra Active. Calligra 2.4 was released on 11 April 2012. The Calligra team was originally scheduled to release the final 2.4 version in January 2012 but problems in the undo/redo feature of Words and Stage required a partial rewrite and caused a delay. The package is labeled as “highly experimental” and “not yet suitable for daily use”. The first version of the Calligra Suite for Windows was released on 21 December 2011. On, the Calligra team began releasing monthly snapshots while preparing for the release of Calligra 2.4. According to its developers, this version is stable enough for real use, and Karbon14, Krita and KSpread are recommended for production work. KOffice 2.3, released 31 December 2010, along with subsequent bugfix releases (2.3.1–2.3.3) was still a collaborative effort of both the KOffice and Calligra development teams. A new application called Braindump has been added to Calligra after the split and KWord was replaced by the new word processor Calligra Words. Three applications, Kexi, Krita and KPlato and the user interfaces for mobile devices have been completely moved out of KOffice and are only available within Calligra. Most developers, and all but KWord maintainer Thomas Zander, of particular applications joined the Calligra project. (See KOffice § History.) Following arbitration with the community members, several applications were renamed by both parties. History Major releasesĬalligra Active 2.5 displaying a presentationĬalligra was created after disagreements within the KOffice community in 2010 – between KWord maintainer Thomas Zander and the other core developers. Calligra 2.9 ships Calligra Gemini, an enhanced version of Calligra Active with added document editing features and runtime switching between desktop and touchscreen interfaces. The Calligra project shipped Krita Sketch/Gemini and the tablet-focused Plasma Active document viewer with Calligra 2.8. For smartphone-like formfactors 3rd party documents viewers Coffice for Android and Sailfish Office for Sailfish OS are available that make use of these components. On desktop systems, the whole range of features is available.Īs of 2014, Calligra's efforts to create touchscreen-friendly versions are centered on reusable Qt Quick components. Supported systems Desktops Ĭalligra's main platform is desktop PCs running Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows, of which Linux is the best supported system. Calligra relies on KDE technology and is often used in combination with KDE Plasma Workspaces. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting.Ĭalligra uses the OpenDocument format as its default file format for most applications and can import other formats, such as Microsoft Office formats. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. ~185 MB ( xz-compressed source code), ~20 MB (all translations) Ĭalligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE.
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