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University Students to Enhance KDE (KDE.News)

KDE.News has an interview with some students working on KDE. "A group of students at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse will be collaborating on the KDE projects KPlato and Umbrello as part of their Institut Universitaire Professionalisé en Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques (Professional Institute of Computer Software Engineering) course of study."
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University Students to Enhance KDE (KDE.News)

Posted Dec 4, 2006 23:34 UTC (Mon) by azhrei_fje (guest, #26148) [Link]

Cool! I would love to see Umbrello make a place for itself in the world of object design software. I've had a few problems with it, but overall I've been pretty happy (and I can't beat the price). I've tried to use the "Eclipse Modeling Framework" (is that the right piece?), but I haven't had much luck figuring out how to do graphical editing in Eclipse. (Maybe I can't? The UML2 stuff seems to be a simply text-based cascade display...)

And I suppose I should read up on KPlato now, too. :)

University Students to Enhance KDE (KDE.News)

Posted Dec 5, 2006 0:28 UTC (Tue) by Holmes1869 (guest, #42043) [Link]

I also was confused by EMF and didn't really understand what it was supposed to do. I read up a little and it seems that EMF is more of a framework for other tools to build on top of. See Omondo as an example (I think it builds on top of EMF, correct me if I'm wrong). Not sure if there are any free software tools that build on EMF, but I would assume there would be. Hope that helps.

University Students to Enhance KDE (KDE.News)

Posted Dec 5, 2006 6:37 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Umbrello has saved the day quite a few times for me, especially when
confronted with a heap of hostile C++ or Java code. It already has
progressed quite fast during the past few years to the point where crashes
are very rare. KPlato has been quite actively developed in the past few
years, too, although I have to admit, as a former KOffice release dude,
that Dag Andersen seems to become most active when KOffice enters the
alpha phase of a release!

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