[kde-edu]: Re: Split out "kvocabedit" from Kanagram?

[Peter Hedlund]

Hello,

KWordQuiz is probably the best editor for simple kvtml. Parley for more advanced features. Both part of kde-edu.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,
Peter

On Nov 26, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Gordon Schumacher wrote:

> I need to preface all this by saying that I'm a long-time KDE user and 
> Qt developer, but am new to KDE development, so please bear with me :)
> 
> So, I'm home-schooling my eight-year-old son, and have been using 
> KHangman and Kanagram to do spelling words with him (to great success - 
> he's much more willing to do anything that's in the form of a game!)
> 
> I was considering the idea of splitting out the vocabulary editor into 
> its own application.  First, it took me a fair bit of digging to figure 
> out how to do the custom vocabs in the first place.  I found many 
> tutorials on how to hand-write a kvtml file, but the format they 
> indicated was wrong (perhaps they were for an older version?)  It then 
> took me a fair bit to discover that the editor was actually part of 
> Kanagram.
> 
> I was visualizing something vaguely similar to Qt Linguist, in that you 
> could open one or more vocab files, select one or more languages for it, 
> and then enter the words and clues.  Again similarly to Linguist, the 
> ability to import "foreign" formats would be nice.  (IIRC KHangman can 
> already do this, but Kanagram can't - and neither can then save back out 
> as kvtml.)
> 
> Whether it gets split into its own application or not, it might be 
> reasonable to offer the actual functionality as either a library or a 
> custom widget; that way it could easily be used either way.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
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