So today I released a new version of Abakus (the simple useful KDE calculator). Basically we show the more important part of long answers by default, and abakus supports using the correct decimal separator according to the KDE locale settings.
A couple of months ago I tried porting Abakus to Qt 4, which actually sort of worked, but I don’t think it looked too nice (something about the layouts being wrong). I’ll have to try again soon, which brings me to my next question: Should I push to get abakus included by default with KDE 4? I know that Jonathan Riddell mentioned it way back when. And even now it seems to be one of the more popular applications I’ve been responsible for. (In fact, the reason I made a release today is because someone emailed saying they love the application, could I add this feature? Whoops, the feature has been in SVN for months now, maybe I should release it…)
Of course then the issue becomes what to do with kcalc? I mean, I suppose I could add a button bar to abakus (like what Johan has done with SpeedCrunch), but it just seems… wrong. But then we don’t want to have two programs doing the same thing either. Hmm. Maybe I should ask the guys at OpenUsability. :)
The ongoing Prototype story…
Anyways, I haven’t blogged in awhile. Last time I mentioned how I was psyching myself up for my Final Watch Board. Well, it got delayed because of the poor performance of the officer who went the day before I did. The upper management freaked out and postponed the Final Watch Boards for myself and the other officer who was supposed to go that day. It was pushed back to 12-May in my case. But guess what, now the boat is broken, and unless they get it fixed fast enough (not likely), they’ll have to postpone my Final Watch Board *again*. :-(
And without the Final Watch Board, I can’t take the Final Oral Board and qualify. argh.