[kde-edu]: Kalzium: How to handle the SOM?

[Peter Hedlund]

Hi Carsten,

Here are some thoughts:

> When you are in Kalzium you have 5 different looks (like the groups or the
> blocks) and also the State of Matter (SOM) with which you can look what SOM
> the elements have at a given temperature.

Exactly, there are five "looks", see below.

> 1) I am not sure if I should disable the "Look"-menu (while using the SOM) 
> in order to make it impossible to change the look (while you are using the
> SOM). This means to disable the _complete_ menu because there are no other
> entries in the menu. Annma has concerns about that.

Theoretically you can disable all entries in a menu, but not the menu itself.

> 2) The other way would be to disable the SOM as soon as the user changes to
> a look. In other words: The user is in the SOM and clicks on a look --> The
> SOM is diabled and Kalzium switches to the selected look.

How about a View menu with

Plain (current no color scheme)
Groups
Blocks
Acid behavior
State of Matter
---
Timeline
Legend

The first five are exclusive of each other, the last two can be toggled 
independently.

This leaves the Plot function, which will be the only entry in a Tools menu, 
or if you have a better idea.

In my opinion the Color scheme panel in the Configuration dialog should go 
away, it redundantly and confusingly duplicates the menu.

In Config/Misc:

Temperature Unit (group box title)
Kelvin
Degrees Celsius
Degrees Farenheit

(The word use is redundant)

In Element info dialog/Misc:

Discovery: <name of element> was discovered in <year>.

Thanks,
Peter