[KDE/Mac] Fwd: [Kde-science] Kst 2.0.8 released!

Mon Jul 28 14:19:33 UTC 2014

definitely, this is what we are waiting.

asarr

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset at free.fr>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> We've released kst 2.0.8 recently (it is a fast, user-friendly Qt-based 2D
> plotting tool) but we don't have any Mac OSX packages up to now. Is there
> any chance to interest someone on this list?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolas
>
> ----- Mail transféré -----
> De: "Nicolas Brisset" <nicolas.brisset at free.fr>
> À: "kst" <kst at kde.org>
> Cc: "kde-science" <kde-science at kde.org>, "netcdfgroup" <
> netcdfgroup at unidata.ucar.edu>
> Envoyé: Samedi 19 Juillet 2014 20:27:18
> Objet: [Kde-science] Kst 2.0.8 released!
>
> **************************************************
> Kst 2.0.8 released July 19th 2014
>
> The Kst team is happy to announce the immediate availability of version
> 2.0.8 of the Kst plotting tool. This version contains many bugfixes and a
> few new features compared with 2.0.7.
> Packages for Windows are available from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kst/files/Kst%202.0.8/, as well as the
> complete source code and cmake-based build files.
> Note: the 32 bit version is recommended for Windows users who need data
> analysis plugins, as the 64 bit version brings more performance and support
> for extra large data sets but with a limited number of plugins.
> Some Linux distributions provide packages in their own or add-on
> repositories, updates will appear in the next days.
> Finally, expect Mac OSX packages to appear on sourceforge very soon as
> well.
>
> Kst is characterized by the following features:
> - Outstanding performance: curves with millions of points are no problem
> at all!
> - Plotting of live streams
> - Out-of-the box support for a variety of formats (currently ASCII,
> netCDF, dirfile, Matlab's .mat, QImage-supported types, FITS images and
> tables)
> - User-friendly with a modern and consistent user interface
> - A set of unique tools to boost efficiency, including a fantastic data
> import wizard, capacity to edit multiple objects at once or the "Change
> Data File" tool to compare multiple experiments easily
> - Extensive batch mode and python scripting under Linux
> - An active community
> - Easily expandable for new data formats or data analysis algorithms
> thanks to a plugin-based architecture
> - Available on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
>
> A more detailed presentation of Kst can be found on the web page at \
> http://kst-plot.kde.org, including numerous screenshots and all the
> useful download \
> links.
>
> The most notable improvements brought by Kst 2.0.8 over the 2.0.7 version
> released in July 2013 are listed below:
>
> 1) Data sources
> - A new datasource: sourcelist, which is a successive list of otherwise
> identical datasources
> - Another new datasource: FITS tables, contributed by a new contributor:
> Nicholas Chapman. Welcome!
> - ASCII improved once again to support huge files (>8 GB!)
> - Add option how empty ASCII columns should be handled (NaN, copy
> previous, interpolate)
> - Improve ASCII config dialog layout
> - Handle data sources which are temporarily typed into the data source
> selector, but which are not actually used and when a data source is
> deleted, delete its slave primitives as well
>
> 2) Main new features
> - Thanks to the awesome job done by the KDE internationalization team, Kst
> 2.0.8 is now available in the following languages: ca ca at valencia de
> en_GB fr nl pl pt pt_BR sv uk. Kst will default to using the system
> language, if available. To override this, launch with e.g. "LANG=en ./kst2"
> - A progress bar appears when parsing large ASCII files, very nice when it
> takes long with huge files!
> - Reworked view vector values allowing easy comparison of vectors and
> changing the number of digits shown - a first step towards a more
> table-centric view as in other plotting tools
> - Add filtering to the data manager to allow finding items easily in
> complex sessions
> - Add an "unwind" filter: for data fields that have wrapped. For example,
> an angle (0-360 degrees) which has rotated several times
> - New plugin to compute the "activity level" of a signal as the product of
> standard deviation and number of reversals over a sliding window.
>
> 3) Misc. improvements
> - Scripting: major rework underway - still ongoing. Hopefully Python
> scripting will be supported under Windows as well in the next version
> - Add a -T command line option which creates a new tab
> - Equations: add 'degree' versions of the trig functions: sind, cosd, etc
> as well as atan2(x,y)
> - Avoid having to type * before/after the text in the editmultiple widget
> - HOWTO explaining how to add a plugin
> - Improvements to use the whole available space in the
> scalar/vector/matrix/string selectors
> - Fix loads of Krazy2 issues
> - To reduce the impact of latent/glitchy file system situations, delay
> reloading a file which looks like it has shrunk
> - Use "Spectrogram" instead of "CSD"
> - Option to use the "native" Qt graphics system if "use raster" is not
> selected (native works far better for remote X)
> - Website updates (more coming, especially video tutorials)
>
> 4) Bug fixes
> - Scalar selector improvements
> - Many improvements in the update system and propagation of data source
> configuration changes
> - Solve wrong vector selection in shift and differentiation plugins ->
> BUG: 325393
> - Fix annoying bug breaking the recent data file and session lists -> BUG:
> 325086
> - Only reset starting frame to skip boundry if in count from end mode ->
> allow selecting the right subsamples when using skip in other cases
> - Various fixes to ASCII configuration to ensure that we don't parse the
> whole file when we only want to change the settings
> - Make sure custom color applies to all lines of a multi line text label
> - Don't crash when there is an exception while searching for rows
> - Some improvements to defaults in filter plugins
> - Fix enabling/disabling widgets in FFT options -> BUG: 328371
> - In datawizard, don't create plots if no curves -> BUG: 307723
> - Update curve names in plot dialog when changed -> BUG: 318139
> - Further performance improvements
>
> 5) Build system
> - Switch to git, first github (https://github.com/Kst-plot/kst - still
> synced to the main repository at KDE) and then back to KDE ("git clone
> git at git.kde.org:kst-plot")
> - Automatic binary snapshots from git are available from
> http://syntheticpp.github.io/kstbinary/
> - Qt4 + Qt5 compatibility
>
> A comprehensive changelog between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 can be found here:
> http://kst-plot.kde.org/files/Log_messages_2.0.7_to_2.0.8.txt
>
> We hope you will enjoy this version, which has been a bit too long in
> preparation due to the infrastructure changes performed.
> Don't hesitate to promote it among your friends and colleagues, and let us
> know your wishes for future releases.
>
> The Kst Team
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