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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Have the Kcalc changes been reverted yet? Because it’s unusable, which is a damn shame because it was my goto calculator for a decade.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        The calc order changes made it so you couldn’t re-use a result from the previous calc in the next calc. And if you didn’t preface a decimal with a 0, like 0.6 vs .6, it just failed.

        But it was the changes in the calc order that really messed it up. I’ll pull a latest and see if it’s back to normal.

          • axby@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 days ago

            Hi! I’m glad you like it. I’ve finally gotten around to implementing some of the feature requests, and I added support for omitting the leading zero on decimals (e.g. .6 instead of 0.6). I think I also addressed what @ikidd@lemmy.world was referring to, if you press add/subtraction/multiplication/division/exponent as the first button, it will automatically add ans, which is the result of the previous expression. But this meant I had to add a separate button for a negative sign, otherwise you could never type e.g. “-1”, it would always be “ans-1”. This is how a physical calculator worked that I used in school, but I’m interested in feedback from you/others.

            You can try the latest dev branch of the web version here: https://alexbarry.net/dev/calc/2025-01-12/

            (code in the dev branch of the github repo).

            I put off working on the calculator for a while because I didn’t know many people were using it. The Google Play version barely has any users, and I can’t tell how many people are actually using the F-Droid version.

            Anyway I want to test it for a week or so, then I’ll probably update the github pages and F-Droid versions.

            • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              I wasn’t specifically referencing your calculator, by beef was with Kcalc, and they reverted the changes shortly after due to multiple bug reports on the issue.

              • axby@lemmy.ca
                2·
                2 days ago

                Oh yeah I realize you weren’t talking about mine, I just wasn’t sure which limitation @TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de was referring to about mine, if it was the .6 thing or the “can’t operate on previous expression result” limitation (or possibly I misunderstood that one).

                I fixed both but I was curious to know what is more important. It’s hard to get a sense of what people are looking for in my apps since I don’t have any telemetry or anything like that. There are plenty of features that I’d like to add (and other projects I’d like to work on), but I don’t have enough time, so I’m trying to prioritize.

                • TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  In my case it was the leading 0 for decimal values not being implied. And thank you for the lack of telemetry, despite it leaving you in the dark regarding usage. I get tired of being tracked across every app and service.