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Subject: Re: KTouch
From: Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annemarie.mahfouf () free ! fr>
Date: 2012-05-04 20:09:20
Message-ID: 4FA43770.4080207 () free ! fr
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On 05/03/2012 12:25 PM, Sebastian Gottfried wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> in the last couple of months I did some work on KTouch. Because the
> changes
> are quite big by now, I published my results on github for now:
>
> http://github.com/sebasgo/ktouch
>
> This repository is a fork of the official KTouch and my commits merge cleanly
> with the current HEAD of it's master branch of it. In the long run I really
> would like to see my changes to be incorporated into the official repository.
>
> What has begun with an experiment with QML in the context of KTouch has
> now
> culminated in a complete rewrite of KTouch. Because the old code didn't
> separate logic and UI code cleanly, it was very difficult to partially extend
> the application with new QML UI features.
>
> I've canceled this experiment very quickly and instead I've started with
> creating new entity classes for the objects KTouch is dealing with and then
> I've constructed a completely new GUI on top of these classes with QML.
>
> At this point I've a more-or-less working application again. It shares no code
> with the old application but reuses its data. My code brings a lot of changes
> and new features to KTouch, here is a quick summary:
>
> 1. New GUI
>
> * screen shot: http://github.com/sebasgo/ktouch/wiki
> * completely done in QML
> * uses the new QML Plasma Components for common widgets to ensure a
> consistent look and feel
> * application is split into three screens:
> * home screen: profile management + course and lesson selection
> * training screen: that's the main attraction
> * summary screen: here the user can review his performance after finishing
> a lesson
>
> 2. Keyboard Layout Auto-detection
>
> * so no need to configure this manually
> * courses are matched to detected layout to present the user a sensible
> choice
>
> 3. Lesson Unlocking and Extended Training Statistics
>
> * two kind of profiles: one for beginners, one for advanced users
> * for beginner profiles new lessons are only unlocked after mastering the
> previous lessons by reaching specific accuracy and speed thresholds
> * users of advanced profiles may access all lessons immediately
> * training stats are now stored in SQLite database
> * unfortunately incompatible with the old stats, because they are now
> tracked
> per lesson, not per training session
>
> 4. New File Formats for Courses and Keyboard Layouts
>
> * course format is pretty much unchanged in comparison to the old training
> file format, but has some extensions
> * keyboard layout format changed much more, but the new format is much
> easier
> to understand
> * for both there is a script under /extras to convert from the old format to
> the new one automating what can be automated
>
> 5. Missing Features / TODO
>
> * only very few keyboard layouts and courses are converted two the new
> format, therefore I recommend to try out the application with a German or
> UK keyboard layout
> * score screen is pretty much a TODO
> * no keyboard layout and course editor
> * RTL support
> * restricted portability, because keyboard layout detection depends on X
>
> There is still a lot of work left to do before this version of KTouch is in a
> releasable state. My main question if there is interest to integrate my
> version of KTouch back into the KDE development infrastructure and the KDE
> Edu
> project.
>
> As far as I know the KTouch project is currently practically unmaintained. I'm
> obviously willing to complete and maintain my version of KTouch and I really
> would like see it become part of the KDE Edu project.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian Gottfried
>
Hi Sebastian, hi all,
Sebastian's code has been moved to the current KTouch code
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/ktouch
as a branch called next (a repository in playground with the same
KTouch name would have brought problems).
so you
git clone kde:ktouch
then you
git checkout next
I tried the French keyboard with the French lesson and it's very nice to
use (although I would desperately need time to learn typing!).
Best regards,
Anne-Marie
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