README for Calligra Suite Calligra Suite is a collection of office applications linked together by a common base. This common base assures that all office application can work together and also share a common look and feel. Calligra Suite is free software, mostly under LGPL 2+ but also under the GPL. See COPYING and COPYING.LIB for the details. See also copyright and licensing notices in individual files. Contents -------- The applications currently included in Calligra Suite (version 2.1) are: Office productivity: - Words - Word processor - Sheets - Spreadsheet calculator - Stage - Presentation program Graphics: - Karbon - Vector graphics - Krita - Digital painting for artists More information about Krita can be found at http://www.krita.org Management: - Plan - Project planning - Kexi - Visual database applications creator Advanced plugins: - KChart - Graphic data visualization - KFormula - Mathematical formulas The applications not yet part of the official release, but will be included in a next version: - Flow - Flowcharting program More information can be found at http://www.calligra.org Building and running -------------------- Calligra Suite is based on the KDE libraries ( http://www.kde.org ) which are needed to run Calligra Suite. Note that you don't have to actually run the KDE desktop environment in order to use Calligra Suite. Calligra Suite works fine on any desktop or platform. You will need kdesupport, kdelibs and kdebase/runtime installed if you want to compile and run Calligra Suite. Installing kdepimlibs gives more functionality. For importing some external file formats or other plugins, you may also need some other dependencies. For more details on how to build Calligra Suite from the sources, see: http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building Contact info ------------ Developer and User mailing list: mailto:calligra-devel@kde.org Kexi User mailing list: mailto:kexi@kde.org Kexi Developer mailing list: mailto:kexi-devel@kde.org Krita mailing list: mailto:kimageshop@kde.org Subscribing and list information: http://www.kde.org/mailinglists Archives: http://lists.kde.org IRC channel for developers: #calligra on irc.freenode.org IRC channel for Kexi: #kexi on irc.freenode.org IRC channel for Krita: #krita on irc.freenode.org Calligra Suite forums: http://forum.kde.org/calligra Kexi forums: http://forum.kde.org/kexi Krita forums: http://forum.kde.org/krita If you have questions about this README file or about Calligra Suite in general, please mail to the Calligra Suite mailing list: mailto:calligra-devel@kde.org Inge Wallin Boudewijn Rempt