[kde-edu]: edu.kde.org: kvtml files

[Jeremy]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 14:07:20 Ilja wrote:
> Maybe it seems strange, but I really didn't have nearly any free time
> in a while. So basically no results yet.
>
> 2007/10/15, Jeremy Whiting <jeremy at scitools.com>:
> > That sounds pretty good, except for the application support.  The idea
> > with kvtml 2 is that all applications can use all kvtml 2 files. 
> > KHangman and KAnagram can show files with 2 or 5 or how ever many columns
> > there are, currently it will only show words from the first column, but
> > if there's no comment tag, it will use the second column word as the
> > hint, etc.
>
> I wouldn't call it supported, when application is able to show only 1
> column and maybe also second someway.
>
> > Eventually
> > (4.1 maybe) I'd like khangman and kanagram to be able to let you see all
> > the words from all columns, possibly with a column choice combobox or
> > something.
>
> Since nobody has better ideas, values of constants could be changed
> later, if needed.

Ok, I think that'll work fine.

>
> Since most of you seem to be quite interested in KHotNewStuff, it
> most probably makes sense to generate KNS description files
> automatically, too.

Yes, this would be awesome, maybe will need a webform to upload data files and 
generate kns xml entries for new files, or have a script that runs nightly 
adding the new data or something.

> But what should be done with archives to provide them using KNS?
>
> Creating some unpacked versions and naming them like
> "Chinese characters, file 1", .. "Chinese characters, file 4"?

Depends on the app, I'm pretty sure kns can unpack archives after download and 
with kvtml 2 files being larger than kvtml 1 equivalent files I think we'll 
want to compress all kvtml 2 packages anyway.

Sounds great!  Can't wait to have this working.

Jeremy