KDE Traffic #61 is Out

KDE Traffic #61 has been released, with news about KGhostview, KCalc, KRandr inclusion, Qt 3.2 requirement, KMail, KProcess, KOrganizer L&F changes (before, after2, after1) and more. Now let's just wait for everything but the kitchensync. Anyway, get it here, if you dare. Muahaha.

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by tandy pc6 user (not verified)

Yes! The memobank function in that calculator was awesome. I would love to see that same functionality in a modern unix app. Maybe not keypresses, but a little more gui-fied. Select the function from a listbox, then have labelboxes for the required values. Boy that would be great.

by Mario (not verified)

OKAY! Why make two calculators for KDE?!! SImply make an advanced option somewhere in the Configure section, this option could have all the advanced features we want. The current Kcalc is alrady too complicated IMO and many of its features would be best left as an advanced option. Sin, Cos, Tan, these are all advanced features.

PLEASE MAKE AN ADVANCED OPTION IN the CONFIGURE DIALOG OF KCALC AND MAKE THE DEFAULT OPTION "SIMPLE" really simple :)

Anyway, please don't fork it and cause further fragmentation. Who do you think is going to want 2 calculators on their system, why?! Just have the normal Kcalc beefed up with more features via advanced option.

by Dust (not verified)

So much debate about an advanced Calculator... Yes a good calculator would be cool, but really useful would be a numerical/symbolic computational system for KDE.

Octave and Yacas could really benifit from a KDE GUI frontend. Like Klaus Niederkrueger says:
"Who uses Linux? I think mainly pupils and students, and I think this would be a really useful application for them."
It would be great for those projects, great for KDE, really useful for a few hundreds or even thousands of students that, at the moment, must either use an comercial system or a non-intuitive one.

Dust

by Dust (not verified)

I've seen it. Matias has done a good job there, I've tried it and it is insteresting.
I was talking about something much better though, a serious kde project, up there with others like Quanta and Koffice, possibly with coordination between KDE and Octave/Yacas teams to make something really good.

IMO it this should have a really high priority, and the first Desktop Environment to acomplish it is going please many users.

Dust

by Thomas (not verified)

Problem is not lack of interest but lack of (lets say) continuity...
If you're working on your diploma thesis (like me at the moment) you'd really like to have a powerful yet easy to use (based on kde libs) scientific application... But unfortunately your time is limited so you take what is already available (e.g. gnuplot in my case).

But when you finish your scientific exercises the interest in better applications vanishes.

Conclusion: when you're in need of better tools you don't have the time to get into programming (scientific work can be time consuming). When you may have time to start a project, your interest in it is limited.

by Dust (not verified)

Yes, but that is my point exactly.
I wouldn't like such application developed *by* but *for* those who need it.
Ask yourself, by whom and why is Koffice beeing developed? I don't think the situation is much different. It could be a very strong point in favour of KDE.

by Gerd (not verified)

Full ack!

by Philippe Fremy (not verified)

He is not in the first posters so I guess he is having some time off. :-)

by dave hugh-jones (not verified)

... but who cares, it's the dot!

Can anyone explain to me how I could move my Evolution mail folders over to KMail? I've tried using the import tool but nothing seems to work. Using KDE 3.1.3.