[libreoffice-users] Re: Kexi

Tom Davies wrote:

> 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.

Hi Tom,
I am Kexi developer. Kexi is dependent only on KDE Frameworks, not KDE 
Desktop. Like Libre Office, you can run Kexi with other desktops e.g. GNOME, 
any many do that. To show how small the dependencies are, I would maybe 
measure the real size of them e.g. for two popular distributions.

> 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.

These days Qt is smalled in size than 5 average JPEG files :) 

> 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).

'sudo apt-get install kexi' or so, would do the trick better because it 
would install only dependencies needed by Kexi, not entire KDE Desktop.

I am looking forward to hear feedback from people that use Kexi outside of 
KDE Desktop.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
 Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)

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