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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/frontman
From:       Matt Rogers <matt.rogers () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-01-25 3:54:02
Message-ID: 200401242154.02760.matt.rogers () kdemail ! net
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On Saturday 24 January 2004 01:45 pm, Ravi wrote:
> 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

Ahhh, cool.

Thanks for the explanation. :)

Matt
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