KDE-Edu and edubuntu

[Jordan Mantha]

* Jordan Mantha <mantha at ubuntu.com> [2006-09-30 11:34:33]:

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> I am the guy responsible for gallium and so I'd like to clarify a few
> things:
> 
> 1) Gallium is not an offical Edubuntu project. It is being developed by
> Edubuntu community volunteers, of their own accord. So far it is just a
> Launchpad page and like 3 days of hacking around to see what is possible
> to do. It *is* a part of a goal to have more Gnome educational apps that
> several Edubuntu community memebers have wanted to see.
> 
> 2) Gallium is not a "from scratch" app. We started by looking a Kalzium
> (because we really admire it) and porting it's data and trying to
> approach it as a GTK port rather then a rewrite. There is no reason why
> we can't collaborate, I just wanted to have more to show the Kalzium
> devs then the 3 days of hacking we have now.
> 
> 3) The goal of the project is to build on the success Kalzium has had.
> As a chemist I found gperiodic to be nowhere near as good, and it is
> bascially a dormant project. I initially wanted to revive gperiodic, but
> I saw Kalzium's data structure, wealth of information, and features were
> way better. I'm mearly trying to give to the GTK/Gnome world what
> Kalzium has done for the QT/KDE world. I personally have no preferrence
> between Gnome and KDE, and I'm really not trying to start a DE war. I
> just saw a need and thought maybe I could help fill it.

OK, well to clarify even further. The other Gallium developers and I had
a talk with Jean Brefort (the Gnome Chemistry Utils developer) on IRC
about gallium and gchemutils' periodic table. We have decided to
discontinue Gallium as a separate project and instead put our effort
into the gchemutils periodic table. Gallium was a proof-of-concept
project and we had no desire to duplicate effort. 

As Travis said in #gallium - "Gallium is dead, long live gchemutils :)"

-Jordan