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

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Sat Nov 27 21:32:12 CET 2010


Doh, I should have read Peter's response first...

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Gordon Schumacher <whiplash at pobox.com>wrote:
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>> 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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> I have considered that before actually, but really that's one of the
> purposes of the Parley application.  Parley can import many vocabulary
> formats and can save out kvtml files.  If we need something simpler maybe we
> can possibly move the kanagram vocab editor into a library and have an
> application that just launches that.  I believe Parley should be adequate
> though.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy Whiting
>
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