Bug 122725

Summary: Kicker applet Math Evaluator reproduces KCalc bug #119355
Product: [Plasma] kicker Reporter: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa>
Component: generalAssignee: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Shriramana Sharma 2006-02-26 04:51:42 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

The behaviour of KCalc reported at bug #119355 and which has been fixed for KDE 3.51 still persists in the Kicker Math Expression Evaluator applet in KDE 3.51. Please fix it. Thanks.
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2006-02-27 01:25:54 UTC
this is because the math applet is just using the (rather limited) C functions for these things and not a "proper" math library. this has also been reported in another fashion. essentially, if someone came along and rewrote the applet to use a math lib versus the built in C functions we might get somewhere.

personally, i'm not interested in doing that myself. i'm sure someone else will be eventually.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101699 ***
Comment 2 Shriramana Sharma 2006-02-27 04:21:40 UTC
How about KDE4? Will we still have a Math Eval Applet? Then it will have to be done, no?

Please tell me where I can find the relevant source code so I can try what little I can do. Thanks.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2006-02-28 18:50:03 UTC
> How about KDE4? Will we still have a Math Eval Applet? 

assuming someone writes/maintains the code for it, yes.

> Then it will have to be done, no? 

see above =)
 
> Please tell me where I can find the relevant source code so I can try what
> little I can do

kdeaddons/kicker-applets/math/