[kde-edu]: Re: Step development

[todd rme]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:13:44 Sebastian Voecking wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > some of you might already have heard about me. However I would like to
>> > introduce myself. My name is Sebastian and I will take care about Step
>> > now.
>> > You can find me on IRC as voeck. During the last weeks I already made
>> > myself familiar with the code and already commited some bugfixes to
>> > trunk.
>> > For the 4.7 release I intend to work a little more on the usability. I
>> > am
>> > going to start for example with nicer anti-aliased graphics which uses
>> > some newer QGraphicsView features.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Sebastian
>>
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> Welcome to KDE-Edu and thanks a lot for having taken Step and for all the
>> good
>> work!
>> It's awesome to see Step being fixed and improved.
>>
>
> Indeed!  I am also happy to know that finally you have stepped into Step!
> We use Step and have conducted several teacher training programs, and people
> like it so much.  If we could fix some of the nagging problems then this
> will become a very useful program to teach physics.
>
> Do let us know what issues are you going to work on, and as soon as you have
> something to test, do let us know.
>
> --
> GN

Great to see step getting some work!

It could definitely use some improvements for handling planetary
orbits.  I made some bug reports about this:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267072
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267074
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267075
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267071

-Todd