Description
This plasmoid (if you don't know what is a plasmoid, have a look at this article) is a calculator which makes use of the Qalculate! library.
It supports advanced features such as unit conversion, symbolic equations manipulation, currency conversion and many more.
Build instructions
To build the plasmoid follow the usual KDE4/CMake procedure:
tar xzvf qalculate_applet-0.7.tar.gz
cd qalculate_applet-0.7
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
sudo make install
Then restart Plasma, either by restarting KDE or by issuing:
cd qalculate_applet-0.7
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
sudo make install
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Changelog
- 0.7.2
- Fixed a bug in focus handling
- Fixed history navigation, now it should be working also when plasmoid is in panel
- 0.7.1
- Improved focus handling
- Added option to automatically give focus to the input line edit on plasmod activation
- 0.7
- Various bugfixes
- Proper stretch factor of the settings dialog
- 0.6.4
- Async. and non-blocking download of exchange rates at startup
- Hide tooltips when applet is placed on desktop
- Display icon when no input is given
- 0.6.3
- Fixed bug when both live evaluation and write results in input line are enabled
- 0.6.2
- Fixed vertical panel issue
- Added option to evaluate expression as you type
- 0.6.1
- Applet is now respecting locale settings
- Fixed a couple of memory leaks
- Fixed some translations
- 0.6
- Applet rewrite. Now using Plasma::PopupApplet
- Improved panel support
- Improved interface
- Added support for Reverse Polish Notation
- Added base conversion
- Added various options
- 0.5.1
- Fixed update of exchange rates
- Fixed input string conversion
- 0.5
- Added button to copy results
- Added option to write results in input line edit
- Added notifications when applet is in panel
- Better integration in panel
- Various improvements
- 0.4
- Plasmoid can be moved to panel
- Added possibility to copy results to clipboard
- 0.3.1
- Compatibility with KDE 4.2
- Added icon
- 0.3
- Added currency conversion
- Changed aspect ratio
- Minor changes
- 0.2
- Improved formatting of the result
- Added more options
- 0.1
- Initial version


