Kugar

Kugar
Original author(s) Keith Davis
Developer(s) KDE, theKompany
Initial release September 21, 2000 (2000-09-21)[1]
Stable release 1.6.3 / June 7, 2007 (2007-06-07)[2]
Development status Discontinued
Written in C++ (Qt)
Operating system Unix-like
Available in Multilingual
Type Report generator
License GNU General Public License
Website www.thekompany.com/projects/kugar/

Kugar is a discontinued tool for generating business quality reports for KOffice. The reports can be viewed and printed. It includes a standalone report viewer and a KPart report viewer. The latter means that any K Desktop Environment 3 application can embed the report viewing functionality and that reports can be viewed using the Konqueror browser.

Kugar works by merging application generated data with a template to produce the final report. Both the data and the template are specified using XML. This approach means that applications only need worry about generating the data itself. A template can be referenced via a URL which allows businesses to create a centrally managed template library.

History

Kugar was developed by theKompany as derivative from Metaphrast originally written by Keith Davis at Mutiny Bay Software beginning in August 1999.[3][4][5] theKompany released version 1.0 on September 21, 2000[1] which was based on K Desktop Environment 2 and Qt 2.2.0.[6] On February 21, 2001 Kugar was donated to KDE for inclusion into KOffice.[1] KOffice 1.1 – the last version based on K Desktop Environment 2 – was released as beta version on April 24, 2001 and already included Kugar as stable application.[7] Kugar remained part of KOffice up to version 1.6.3.[8][2] Kugar was not ported to become part of KOffice 2. Kexi’s new Report Designer – introduced in KOffice 2.2 on May 28, 2010[9] – is meant to be the replacement for Kugar.[10]

Features

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kugar Introduction". theKompany.com. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  2. 1 2 "KOffice 1.6.3 Released | KDE.news". Dot.kde.org. 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  3. http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2001032100420NWKE
  4. "KOffice 1.1’s Kugar README". Websvn.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  5. "mreportobject.cpp". Websvn.kde.org. 1999-08-11. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  6. "Kugar Roadmap/FAQ". theKompany.com. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  7. "KOffice Suite Beta Released | KDE.news". Dot.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  8. "KOffice 1.6 README". Websvn.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  9. "Blog Archive » KOffice 2.2 Released". KOffice.org. 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  10. "Kexi Project - "Microsoft Access for Linux" - Development". Kexi.automatix.de. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
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