[kde-edu]: Intent to move Marble into KDE-EDU

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres 07 Març 2007, Torsten Rahn va escriure:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Most people might be aware of it already but I'd like to formally express
> my intention to move Marble into KDE-EDU.
>
> Marble is a generic geographical widget providing a globe that people can
> browse the world with. I recently added support for coordinate grids and
> started Wikipedia integration. 

How is wikipedi integration done? Are you parsing the html or using the 
webservices api? 

> I also started ways to measure distances 
> between placemarks. Some recent screenshots:
>
> http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/marble/marble13.png
> http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/marble/marble12.png
>
> I'm currently aiming for a move to kdereview within the next 10 days and a
> move into kde-edu once (right in time for KDE 4.0) the review weeks have
> passed.
>
> By that time Marble should have also basic KDE-fication which would include
> - saving maps (in png)
> - printing maps
> - copying maps into the clipboard
> - proper docs
> - proper cmake inclusion
>
> So if everything goes well, the first (already very stable) inclusion of
> Marble into kde-edu should happen around April 2nd.
>
> This would still be right in time for the feature freeze on May 2nd and
> offer enough time to solve remaining issues and take possible slipping into
> account.
>
> I already talked with Albert in the past about maybe sharing funcionality
> with KGeography in the future in some way. Whatever the solution will look
> like, I personally think that this can only be fully addressed after KDE
> 4.0 has been released. Currently KGeography uses basically bitmaps to store
> and display data which is pretty inefficient in terms of flexibility as
> well as filesize. 

Well, i agree it's wrong in filesize, but imho the format is flexible enough, 
i mean, i have 47 maps on SVN contributed by people != me and some more 
(around 20) lying in the HD waiting to be checked and commited.

BTW i'm not saying i'm against kgeography using marble's code, i'm just not 
sure if it is really easier defining vector data than drawing a pixel map, of 
course a pixel map is limited to a given size and vector data has the huge 
benefit of allowing free resize of the image.

I'm not sure i make any sense...

Albert

> Marble uses a very smart combination of vectors and 
> bitmaps which basically will offer improved quality for the maps, better
> accuracy, more flexibility and all this at much less file size than what
> KGeography needs to cover the world fully. I consider the availability of a
> 2D-View for Marble an additional requirement to merge functionality. And
> this feature won't be implemented not earlier than GSoC 2007, for which I
> offer my mentorship:
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas
>
> So that's one of the reasons why merging functionality between KGeography
> and Marble in some way will likely have to wait until KDE 4.1
>
> Torsten
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