I love that Calligra exists as alternative to LibreOffice.

But last time I tested it, I used it to create and save a .docx file that only included one word: "test".
Then I opened it again in Calligra, and it turned into a document with 6 pages, with the word "test" on each of them.

I love that people have picked up the development process back up. Last time I've checked Calligra, the entire suite was in a pitiful state

So cool to see this one coming back from the dead ! Well done ;-)

Whoa, I was convinced Karbon wasn't going to see any further Calligra releases. Seemed to have zero maintainers last I checked, thought it'd go the way of Braindump and Author.

That's awesome!

I didn't even know this suite existed 😭 [I never use Office Applications]

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.

I loved Calligra. I left it for LibreOffice in favor of more stability and feature support, but I loved Calligra's approach to document making, and Karbon's canvas was something that inspired creativity. I hope this marks a path of future improvements and revival of the suite.

I tried it, it just deleted a 20 page document that i needed, after a crash. Fuck it.

I had forgotten all about this suite. Good to know it lives.

Personally the most important thing for me is MS Office compatibility. May be if all the open office suite teams get together, they can solve this.