[kde-edu]: Kig in 3.2 ?

[Maurizio Paolini]

> From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
> I'm currently doing Kig's second release ( 0.2.0 ),
> So I thought this would be a nice time to ask about Kig being included
> in KDE 3.2.  The features I mentioned in the previous mail, that KGeo
> did have, and Kig didn't, are all implemented ( that was my goal for
> this second release... ) and I think Kig is a rather complete
> replacement for KGeo now.

Let me comment a little bit on this issue.  I tried out both kgeo and
kig rather extensively.

Going straight to the point: kgeo is *very* nice, as first impression,
but it lacks at least a couple of fundamental things, most notably the
possibility of intersecting circles (with lines or circles).  This 
makes it impossible to even simulate "ruler and compass" constructions.
I added those features myself (and they work fine), but I got only one
answer from the author concerning the official inclusion in kgeo.
This happened last june, but it seems the situation did not change up
to now (I don't blame the author, surely there are good reasons for 
his long response time, kgeo is a gift afterall, and a beautiful one)

On the contrary the same patches where considered by the author of kig,
translated for kig and included, so they are now part of it.

Perhaps I should say that I miss a little bit the look-and-feel of kgeo,
but concerning the features I am confident that kig offers a lot more
right now, (and probably yet more in the future).

Is it time to give 'kig' more visibility?

Best regards,

Maurizio Paolini

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Links:
- My patches for kgeo are available here:
'http://www.dmf.bs.unicatt.it/~paolini/kgeo/'
- An interesting use of kgeo requiring the addition of a nonstandard feature
is described here:
'http://www.dmf.bs.unicatt.it/cgi-bin/preprintserv/paolini/Pao02A'