Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 10.174.103.141]
on October 11, 2008 01:24 AM
While KOffice is an attractive suite in many respects, I found too many deficiencies for my purposes to choose it for routine use. KChart is a specific and critical example given it's integral role in KSpread, though one's expectations are key to this perspective.
"Charting" may be used differently than "graphing". For basic bar charts and such maybe it works fine for some users. But I found the charting/graphing capabilities in KSpread & KChart so rudimentary as to be unusable for most purposes. As a scientist who usually resorts to specialized apps for professional quality and control (SigmaPlot, Prism, closest Linux version found maybe QtiPlot?, other than scripted plotters), my expectations may be too high, but many mainstream users would likely find the plotting capabilities far too limited in their current form. Reference to any of the "competing" suites will show far better performance: OpenOffice.org, QuattroPro, MSOffice, even versions from 10 years ago (for some), including DOS versions. Best example is X/Y plotting for line or scatter - a continuous value X-axis is needed... This isn't obscure, its graphing 101.
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KChart mature? Expectations must be low....
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 10.174.103.141] on October 11, 2008 01:24 AM"Charting" may be used differently than "graphing". For basic bar charts and such maybe it works fine for some users. But I found the charting/graphing capabilities in KSpread & KChart so rudimentary as to be unusable for most purposes. As a scientist who usually resorts to specialized apps for professional quality and control (SigmaPlot, Prism, closest Linux version found maybe QtiPlot?, other than scripted plotters), my expectations may be too high, but many mainstream users would likely find the plotting capabilities far too limited in their current form. Reference to any of the "competing" suites will show far better performance: OpenOffice.org, QuattroPro, MSOffice, even versions from 10 years ago (for some), including DOS versions. Best example is X/Y plotting for line or scatter - a continuous value X-axis is needed... This isn't obscure, its graphing 101.
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