From kde-edu-devel  Tue Apr 30 22:40:35 2002
From: Matthias Messmer <bmlmessmer () web ! de>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:40:35 +0000
To: kde-edu-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-edu-devel] First Announcement Of KMathCenter
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-edu-devel&m=102033182825432

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 12:32, Christian Parpart wrote:
> 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 calle=
d
> > 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 p=
rint
> them to the paper. KMathCenter also has a function plotter, but with mo=
re
> intents. As you surely could see on the screenshots. It also supports
> function combinings, derivations, etc. It's an analytic function plotte=
r,
> 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.
[... snip]

I personally dislike all-in-one applications like KMath, KPysics or even=20
KLanguage. So i vote for tiny progs for common issues like plottig the gr=
aph=20
of a given function.

Ok, kdm (original author of kmplot) said some day, he doesn't want to=20
restructure the code of kmplot, cause its too much work for less use. We=20
argued about that.
Finally we restart our discussion - more kindly now :-) - and now we want=
 to=20
improve kmplot that it fits into KDE, hopefully into KDE-EDU as well.=20

Plotting with high precision is one important feature of kmplot. Support =
of=20
polar coordinates and of parametric functions is another.

I'm not familar with the parser coded by kdm, so i will pass the mentione=
d=20
problem to kdm himself. But after working over the GUI at some points we =
will=20
have a nice Program that i dont want to miss.

Furthermore i'll try your approach to find out commonesses and difference=
s in=20
handling with plots.

Regards

Matthias

--=20
Matthias Messmer, Germany
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