[Kalzium] Two versions of Kalzium?

[Pino Toscano]

On Friday 16 September 2005 11:59, Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 10:58, Eloy Cuadra wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:20, Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> > > I am thinking about creating two different versions of Kalzium
> > >
> > > 1.) A educational version
> > > 2.) A scientific version
> >
> > I don't like this idea. It sounds like an auto-fork. Two different
> > versions of Kalzium will be, sooner or later, two different programs. And
> > that will throw a little confusion.
>
> Yes, in IRC everyone told me the idea is not good :)

Me join that group :)
I can't imagine the amount of users/teachers/students/etc.. comlaining that 
they can't find which is the proper version/why the feature X is only in one 
version/etc.

> > Please, consider this other idea: extracting some functionality of the
> > current program and implement it as modules (or even plugins) that you
> > can activate through the configure dialog. And then, with the remaining
> > functionalities, you can decide wich of them shoud be included in an
> > "advanced mode".
>
> Yes, Pino and I talked about that in Malaga. So I think this is the way to
> go: Creating small apps which can be activated in Kalzium. The only problem
> is that my c++-knowledge about this is not good enough, I hope Pino can
> help here...

I agree on this idea (even because i proposed it it Carsten at Malaga ;-) ). 
The unique thing that i don't agree about is creating small apps: the user 
would have the advantage of having small apps for single tasks, but they mean
a) tons of small libraries (at least one per single app)
b) a number of menu items, and the user would read all to choose the wanted 
tool (even if he/she could do a symlink or whatever)
b) if we would integrate better one piece with another, the former should open 
the other one (for example, opening the nuclide board from the periodic 
table), so it would be like having the app with the pieces in a tool menu or 
something like that.

my 2 €cents,

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Pino Toscano