[Kalzium] Avogadro port so far...

[Benoît Jacob]

Hi,

I've spent today on libavogadro integration. Things that remain to be done:

-- expose the Tools to the user. I think we should mimick the way Avogadro 
does this (one little button with icon for each tool, plus keyboard 
shortcuts) as I think it's very nice and would work for us.

-- find a nice GUI way to let the user choose the Engines. Here the Avogadro 
way (with checkboxes) is not suitable for Kalzium so here's what I propose (I 
still don't know how to use Designer):
Have 4 radio-buttons for {sphere,bsdy,wire,stick}engine. These 4 engines 
should be mutually exclusive (i guess for Kalzium having more than one engine 
simultaneously is overkill).
Then have 1 checkbox for the label-engine (which by the way we need to tweak 
in avogadro's trunk to allow it to render more useful information).

-- KNewStuff integration to let the user easily download and browse the 
BlueObelisk collection of molecules.

Cheers,
Benoit

On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:03:26 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have to get some work done on my thesis. I have begun on porting but
> hesitate to commit this as it is messy and the view still does not render
> the atom after it has been loaded. I need to work for the rest of the day
> and so I figured this would be best with you guys in case you get some time
> to look at further porting.
>
> Mainly need to figure out how to link the combobox to the engines to set an
> engine to render with. The kpart stuff it is complaining too. When I get
> more time I will come back to it, or if you get chance to take a look and
> spot what I have missed that would be great :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus


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