[Kalzium] Redesign of Kalzium

[Carsten Niehaus]

Moin moin

In the last couple of month we added quite some tools to Kalzium. Currently we 
have these tools:

-Periodic table
  --Informationdialog
-R/S-Dialog
-3D-Viewer
-Simulations
-Crystalviewer
-Isotopetable
-Tables
 -- Greek symbols (alpha, beta...)
 -- Numbers (what is '5' in greek?)
-Plotting
-Equation solver

Holy shit... That is a lot... :)

Ok, all tools but the PSE-Table are in Dialogs. Why?! I the table so special 
in chemistry or more the "maintool" than the 3D-viewer? Perhaps, I don't 
know; that is what I want to discuss with you.
Why is Kalzium the way it is? Well, that is just because the table was the 
first thing I coded some years ago, the other tools came later. There is no 
real reason in it. Therefore Pino and I had a brief discussion that we could 
revamp the GUI of Kalzium.

We could for example make the PSE just another tool, make the mainwidget (that 
what now the table is in KDE 3.x) an "Overview over all tools" widget with 
preview and whatnot. If the use selects a tool this overview-thing would go 
away and that selected tool would appear. Not as a dialog but  as the main 
widget of Kalzium.

(I CC'ed kdeedu because perhaps some there want to take part in the 
discussion. But please: Answer to kalzium at kde.org only)

-- 
Gruß,
  Carsten Niehaus
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