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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu-devel] First Announcement Of KMathCenter
From:       Christian Parpart <cparpart () surakware ! net>
Date:       2002-04-30 10:32:23
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Sebastian Stein inspired the electrons to say:
> Am Dienstag, 30. April 2002 10:18 schrieb Christian Parpart:
> > I would be really really very happy if you feel free to download it,
>
> Ok, I was only able to have a look at the screenshots, because I have not
> installed KDE 3 yet. It really looks great, but there is a tool called
> kmplot allready included into the kdeedu package. I think both tools are
> doing the same job. I can not say which tool is better... But I think it
> would not make sence to have 2 tools included doing the same.

kmplot is not really doing the same. It can plot functions and it can print 
them to the paper. KMathCenter also has a function plotter, but with more 
intents. As you surely could see on the screenshots. It also supports 
function combinings, derivations, etc. It's an analytic function plotter, as 
the name says, a help for analysis. 

kmplot has not these features. And, kmplot does crash on function call 
referencing, KMathCenter has an recursion guard already implemented. It is 
said the the auther thinks his program is already finished. However, I do 
really wich that this application will never finish.

> > about OpenGL
>
> I know OpenGL is great, but installing it on Linux is not that easy. I mean
> on my workstation I have no problem with it, but on my laptop... Wouldn't
> it be possible to provide a layer so the user can switch between opengl
> (fast) and normal qt drawings (maybe slow) at runtime?

I was already working on this. But unfortunately had some issues against Qt's 
slots mechanism wich had to stay in the base interface class. I do not cancel 
that, it's just delayed and planned to be done in near future.

> Another thing I like to say is, that you should look at KMathTool, KiG and
> at my Bruch program. Maybe we can combine all these programs to one big app
> to provide a full functional mathematical tool. Just a thought...

Well, KMathTool was IMHO renamed to KMathHelp as the result of an irc channel 
talk, I thought. Okay, then not. And yes I already thought about merging in 
near feature. It depends on all the others how they do think about and 
whether it really make sense.

> Steinchen

Christian Parpart.






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