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I just created a better calculator...
by foobie on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @13:36

and its already installed.

Open your favorite terminal and type
python

No, I'm half serious, when I need a calculator I just use the interactive python interpreter. (I guess I should rename it kython ;)
(anyone who has learned to program in any language should find it very easy to use AS A CALCULATOR).

As far as usability goes, I think this (UseCalc) is great. Good job Robert. People have distorted ideas about what usability is, and just because it looks like a calculator, doesn't mean it is usable.

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Re: I just created a better calculator...
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @13:52

And since I am simply doing an eval() of whatever you input, it even gives the same result ;-)

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Re: I just created a better calculator...
by foobie on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @14:08

I guess that my point was why do I even need a calculator program? (I'm trying to take what you are saying a step further). There is already something installed on my computer that does it just fine.

OT RANT WARNING....

To me a kalculator is just bloat (in fact 80-90% of kde/gnome are bloat to me). Don't take this the wrong way, I love kde and have been using it on the desktop since 1.x days. But I'd much rather lose all of the bloat. To me more important is to have integration between best of breed apps.

I mostly use audacity, firefox, cinelerra, dvdstyler, gimp, inkscape, eclipse, kde (mostly for k3b and konqueror file browsing (fish://, etc), want to try digikam at some point), emacs. (I'm still looking for the best of breed multimedia app, using xine for dvds and mplayer for things that xine chokes on, but xmms, and noatun just don't feel good). It would be nice if these apps played together nicely (sound, printing, drag and drop, etc). (And that I don't have to install all of the other apps for kde when I mostly just want k3b and konqueror).

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Re: I just created a better calculator...
by ulri on Tuesday 28/Sep/2004, @01:32

> I'm still looking for the best of breed multimedia app

Check amaroK. It rocks.

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Re: I just created a better calculator...
by Rob Kaper on Wednesday 29/Sep/2004, @05:14

You might want to try Kaffeine. It doesn't fallback to MPlayer but since Xine reached 1.0 it has been perfectly useful. Embeds in Konqueror nicely, too.

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Re: I just created a better calculator...
by John Calc Freak on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @17:36

"and its already installed.
Open your favorite terminal and type
python"

I believe you, I do the same with haskell. I open a terminal and type ghci :)

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