[kde-edu]: Fwd: Re: forward message

[Martin Pfeiffer]

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Subject: Re: [kde-edu]: forward message
Date: Monday 12 September 2005 09:20
From: Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus at gmx.de>
To: Shelagh Manton <oneida at tpg.com.au>, kde-edu at kde.org

On Monday 12 September 2005 00:38, Shelagh Manton wrote:
> This heartens me. Even if it is not taken up by someone else, I will try
> to get something together. Perhaps just a gui to begin with, but my
> programming skills are minimal. (eg first qt tutorial and first couple
> of chapters of Teach yourself C)
>
> However, if someone would find it useful. I will keep working through
> the tutorials.

Two things:

1.) You have coding questions just ask me or the list. Qt is easy :-)

2.) Always keep in mind that you app would only make sense if you can add
categories to it. Use XML to store data and give an item a categorie like
"chemistry". Only this way it will be usefull for more than one application.

Have fun!

Carsten


HI,  
I had a very similar idea: an application for showing a timline. But I 
*dreamed* of that application to be a frontend for something webbased. A 
wiki-style thing where you can enter historical dates and show them as 
timelines. There could be a tagging system: dates of popular persons, wars, 
politcal decisions, for special countries...
This are huge amounts of data, nobody can enter only a significant bit of it. 
So a way to self-create and distribute this data is needed... perhaps this 
can also be done with KHotNewStuff...