GNOME Office
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GNOME Office is an office suite containing:
The Ubuntu 6.10 documentation also includes the following as part of the GNOME Office product suite:
- Dia, a diagram editor
- Inkscape, a vector graphics editor
- The GIMP, the classic image editor
- Planner, a project management solution
The integration between the various applications in the suite is rather loose, and therefore many consider GNOME Office to be merely the collection of desktop productivity applications written for the GNOME environment rather than an office suite in the usual sense. Integration is achieved chiefly through the Bonobo component technology.
GNOME Office is intended to be a competitor to the Microsoft Office suite. The KOffice suite was developed earlier, but was not at first free software according to the strict interpretation of the Free Software Foundation, so the GNOME desktop was created as a free alternative.
[edit] References
- Ubuntu 6.10 documentation (Working with Your Desktop > Office > GNOME Office)
