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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/frontman
From:       Ravi <ravi () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-24 19:45:07
Message-ID: 200401241445.07656.ravi () kde ! org
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On Friday 23 January 2004 11:15 pm, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > Refactoring of code to allow a little more flexibility in developing
> > parts and plugins. Get these off my hard drive and into something safer.

[snip]

> Yeah, but what is it? :P

It is a GUI for console-based mathematical packages, see
  http://www.eleceng.ohio-state.edu/~ravi/kde/frontman.html
for more information. It is general enough that any process that can be 
manipulated via std* handles, i.e., does not require special tty support, can 
be plugged in through it. In other words, it is like a khtml-based 
konsole :-) It has been requested often on the dot and on various other 
places as well.

The refactoring occurred because it needs to have a MDI mainwindow to be truly 
useful, but it was developed in the days of KDE 3.0, and used KJanusWidget as 
a poor man's MDI. Now that I have given up on the KMDI authors ever writing a 
decent introduction/tutorial, I am basically going to try trial and error 
methods to make this app work the Way It Should (TM).

Regards,
Ravi

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