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This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition (pointieststick.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

glad kcalc is finally becoming usable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've long since switched over to Qalculate. Way more functionality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Molecular0079 @leopold
Thanks for the tip Qalculate is very nice compared to convertall & kcalc combo I was using

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fyi, krunner can also do many unit conversions. It's enough for 95% of what I need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I remember trying just about every GUI calculator I could find and trying to get one I could actually tolerate. Any calculator which pointlessly hid what you'd written from you every time you added an operator like KCalc did was automatically out, which disqualified a surprisingly and disappointingly large amount of calculators. Any calculator without a standard skeuomorphic interface was also out, because I didn't feel like relearning how to use a calculator.

I used GNOME calculator for a while, but switched away because I found the interface for programmer mode to be hella confusing when I really just wanted to have hexadecimal and binary modes. I also used Uno Calculator for a while, a direct port of the Windows 10 calculator, but the port was a bit rough and fonts didn't work so well, otherwise it would've been perfect. I finally settled on Deepin Calculator. A bit basic and completely unthemable beyond switching between dark and light themes, but it was very easy to use and had all the functionality I needed. I can't for the life of me remember why I didn't just go with Qalculate!. I know for a fact I tried it and it seems like it would've been perfect. I'll probably just be using KCalc from now on, tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the hint that there are usable calculators for desktops. However, I switched to python and julia REPLs years ago and never came back to GUI-Calculators.