KDE and KOffice to get Visio style application
Aug 29th, 17:00 UTC
Kivio, a Visio style application announced by theKompany.com
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA -- August 29, 2000 --
theKompany.com, a leading producer of Linux developer software
including the second-tier distribution PowerPlant, is pleased to
announce that it has committed direct support and sponsorship for
enhancing and improving the Queesio project.
"The Queesio project was intended as a Visio type application for KDE,
the author, Dave Marotti was having trouble finding time to finish the
project, and we were looking at creating a Visio type product," said
Shawn Gordon, president of theKompany.com. "Dave is a great guy and
very knowledgeable, so we were pleased to work with him on the
project. We are doing a major rewrite and converting Queesio to
KParts so it can inter operate with the other KOffice applications,
because of the extensive changes, the project has been renamed to
Kivio and will be hosted on our website. We are pleased to offer our
support and know-how to this important part of ongoing Linux
application development."
As a component of the KOffice project, Kivio will also take advantage
of the new Python (VeePee) scripting language technology that is being
developed by theKompany.com's in-house developer and creator of
PyQt/PyKDE, Phil Thompson.
"We are excited to add an application to the KOffice suite that isn't
found in any other office suite, on any other platform. The plug-in
architecture of Kivio will allow us to create some amazing stencils
for uses that no one has ever seen before," said Gordon.
(Submitted by Shawn Gordon of theKompany.com)
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