[kde-edu]: forward message

[Carsten Niehaus]

On Thursday, 8. September 2005 06:46 pm, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> Both would be valid, but for the second one I would need to know exactly
> what has to be done to the existing app to be able to know the complexity
> of the work to be done so I know if my students can do it, or if it's
> enough work for them to earn their grade.
>
> I would prefer new ideas, but if you have a pretty clear idea of something
> to do to an existing project that's fine too.

Hi Juan Luis

I am the author and maintainer of Kalzium. Attached you find our TODO-list for 
KDE 4. As you can see we have a list for things ranging from "very 
complicated" to "very easy to implement". You and your students are very 
welcome to help us with any of these items. For questions ask me directly, 
this list or Kalziums developer-list (kalzium at kde.org).

Carsten
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			 TODO for Kalzium 1.5
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Bugs
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* Miscellaneous bugs:
  + Make use of the biological symbol.	     				----
    CN: I lost the "translation" though, will have to look after it.
	CN: I have deactivated the drawingconde
  + correct mass-rounding
    presumably, the arg()-funktion now rounds wrong			-----


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                       Future versions

* Export to html and csv comes into my mind. Pretty easy I
  guess. Something like that was in Kalzium of KDE 3.1 I
  think.  But my implementation sucked so much I removed it.

* Add KHotNewStuff support (xml) so that a user can define which
  dates are displayed in the timeline (see SOM)
  
* Log-scale of the gradient						

* Plotting
  + Add groups of elements, for example "Metals", 4th Period		
    transitionmetals and so on. The user can easily select them 
    and only plot the selected group
  + More than one group should be plottable at once.			
    This would enable the user to compare two or more groups, 
    eg. 4th with 5th group

* Add more than only one mode to Kalzium, eg a mode with simplified
  user interface (less looks, easier menu structure, less information
  in the infodialog) and a full-mode where everything is enabled.

* There should be more data about the elements, for example which
  chemitry-nobel-prize was won in that year (+/- 5 years or so)

* Make use of hotnewstuff. In the detailinfodlg there should be
  a weblookup. If the user click on a button Konq will start with
  a page about the element. Of course, the user should be able
  to decide which page.
  For this we could create a simple editor and store it in xml.
  on edu.kde.org we would enable KHNS so that users can share
  their pages. Imaginge for example the different wikipedia-languages

* Add the weblookup also in the glossary

* Besides although for the "common user" is more easy to understand 
  the information in "... years", it's more correct and flexible in 
  scientific terms to use the scientific notation: ...x10e9 years.

* Add lesson-mode? The idea is that a teacher could create xml-files
  which can somehow be used as lessons. Perhaps something like
  "find out how many element boild at 200 Degree Celsius and above.
  With the information: Why is it so?"

* Add experiental mode: A teacher defines experiments (in xml) where
  fotos and texts are used to represent a experiment/task. Perhaps
  combined with openoffice-files (charts and so on). Like in CheExp.

* Add two comboboxes to the infodialog: That way the user can search
  for an element by name and number. Like in CheExp

* Thinking on people with some disabilities, it would be great if they can 
select the elements on the grid by using cursor keys (or just tab key).

* Perhaps there must be a KComboBox in the toolbar where you can select the 
different views of the PTE.

* There's no view of the natural occurrence of the elements. Look at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table_(standard) and see the notes 
about borders.

* Spectrum-Classes
  + Create an editor. The user enters some wavelength and Kalzium will
    create a graphic from that data.

* Some websites with a lot of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chemistry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discovery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_chemistry
http://chemipedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Hauptseite
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Handbook/periodictable.htm

Properties listed on my periodic table:
Page 1:
- electronconfig 						[DONE]
- Atomic radius (covalent, ionic, vdw   [Semi-DONE]
- reduction potential
- EN 									[DONE, there are more values, other scales]
- abundance 							[Semi-Done]
- biological symbol 					[DONE]
- IUPAC-Name 							[DONE]
- number 								[DONE]
- oxidation-numer(s)					[DONE, need to be checked]
- orbitals 								[DONE]

Page 2:
- number of natural isotopes
- massenzahlen (# of neutrons) of the most important isotopes
- natural abundance of the isotopes
- first IE 								[DONE]
- density 								[DONE]
- SP and BP 							[DONE]
- Infos about the most important isotope [DONE but needs to be improved]
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