Standalone KOffice for Linux, Please

I understand that this is going to a KOffice mailing list; it is an idea 
and a request that I am hoping someone might respond to.  I first looked 
for a forum or other way of sending this request.  If I am in the wrong 
place with this, I would greatly appreciate being told where I might 
take it (I am reluctant to ask where I should put it!)

*I think a standalone KOffice for Linux would be a wonderful thing.*  
That way it would be available to people who for one reason or another 
do not use KDE.  My reason, for instance, is that I work with a much 
smaller and lighter distribution named Puppy, but I would like to use 
KOffice, as it is lighter and faster than the other office suites, it 
looks very good, and it is comprehensive and powerful . I wanted to 
recommend a windows standalone too, but it seems like that is already on 
the way.  So windows will have a standalone KOffice and Linux won't?  Oh my!

I do not think the standalone would be prohibitively difficult to 
make--of course, I know virtually nothing.  I don't know totally nothing 
though, because I have been trying to prepare a standalone KOffice to 
work with Puppy Linux.  So far, *I have a 150 MB package that very 
nearly works! * This is about one-fourth of the size of a full KDE 
installation I guess.  I hope to shrink it somewhat more also.  All of 
the programs start and all or almost all run well (depending on the day 
;-).  No joke.  They all open, run, and save their respective files.  
They also look good on the screen. To give you an idea of how I am 
doing, here is a list of the things that are left. 

If I can't convince someone at KOffice to take this on as a project of 
interest, I hope I might interest someone in possibly answering 
questions and/or giving some guidance.  As with Crossover Linux and 
Wine, I would be happy to make a small contribution of $50-100 for help 
with completing the project.  And if all of that fails, I would like to 
try to find a list of what programs and processes KOffice expects to be 
running or available.  As I hope you can see from the Todo list, I have 
gotten a lot done, but now I am left with the problems that are tough 
because I  don't know enough about KOffice.  At least there really are 
only these few of them.  I will be grateful for any help.  Thanks for 
your time, Larry Short


/1. Dictionary. It is missing and the spell checker in KWord and 
KPresenter doesn't work. I tried american.hash from Ispell and KOffifce 
recognizes that as a dictionary but reports that it is in bad format. 
Without american.hash spell check finds no misspelled words; with 
american.hash spell check finds that *every* word is misspelled Wink It 
appears that kde3.5.8 sfs (a package for puppy) has the same problem, at 
least for me. Will recheck. My plan is to install full kde+koffice on 
another distro and see what I can learn. Unfortunately the fix doesn't 
seem to be as straightforward as installing one of the i10 or i18 
language support/locale files, since there is no en_US i10 or i18 (en_US 
is the built-in default. I learned yesterday).

2 Gamin. I remembered that I had installed libfam, which is a library 
that KOffice would not start without (libfam is a part of gamin) but I 
did not install full gamin. Installing full gamin does prevent
Code:
    failed to find gam_server
    Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-root-

3. I sometimes get errors about failing to find "applications.menu in 
/root/.config/menus/,/etc/xdg/menus/". My previous experience with KDE 
is that if one watches a console, KDE generates beaucoup warnings and 
errors, even in a default installation from major distributions, but it 
still runs apparently well from the gui. In other words, in some ways it 
seems normal for kde to generate a lot of console messages, warnings, 
and errors, but still run within parameters--this applies to the gamin 
server also maybe. I surmise that the kde goal is to run stably as gui, 
regardless of messages--"robust" in this way.  This is all ongoing.

4. KChart. KChart (on Puppy 4.00) doesn't run for me beyond the intro 
screen. Maybe I didn't check that previously. X goes to 100% cpu and 
stays there. This is a show stopper. And on 3.01, KChart works fine, but 
Karbon crashes at that same point (picking a template and going on).

5. Khelpcenter does not work. Some required files are not installed.
/

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