Re: [Freecats-Dev] KBabel option - IMPORTANT (was: OO & Wordfast integration)

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On 2/19/03 9:42, "Stanislav Visnovsky" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >> What's the point of porting KDE to Mac OS X? You can already run KDE using
> >> Apple's X11 client (though apparently it's not very stable). Are you
> >> suggesting that KDE could replace the Aqua interface? I don't see any
> >> reasons for that...
> > 
> > No. In fact, I'm not an expert in this area and I do not port myself.
> > 
> > But KDE 3 is already available on Darwin and OS X:
> > http://dot.kde.org/1022869694/
> 
> That is indeed the X11 installation through Fink. It is not really a port to
> OS X; it is a port that allows Fink to install it for the X11 client on OS
> X.
> 
> Henri's questions were more about using Kbabel native on OS X. It is not
> advisable to have to pass through the X11 client, since that limits the
> possibilities in terms of word processors available. When I translate, 99%
> of the documents I receive are Word docs. I would rather use Word than
> convert the docs, with the problems that may occur. I'm not yet convinced
> that OO can convert _everything_ from a Word doc into RTF. I have seen
> several articles saying that it can't.

KBabel is not a right tool for you then.

Stanislav