{"id":22,"date":"2009-09-26T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-09-26T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:46:18","slug":"scratching-that-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2009\/09\/scratching-that-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratching that itch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image created from .jef file<\/p><\/div>\n

When I wrote my last blog, “When you have an itch to scratch….” (http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=17) it was with a forlorn hope.\u00a0 It seemed to me that my need was not a common one, so it was unlikely that anyone would be interested, particularly since I could give little or no information to help a project get started.\u00a0 I should have had more faith in the world of FOSS.<\/p>\n

Two people initially showed particular interest.\u00a0 Purple-bobby did some interesting work to start off (http:\/\/purple-bobby.co.uk\/JEFView\/), but has not developed it further.\u00a0 Maybe he didn’t have time or lost interest, or maybe I was just too slow in responding to him.\u00a0 The other person was David Boddie, who started a python project that seems to have good potential.<\/p>\n

Identifying the part of a .jef file that contains the stitch-out was the quick bit.\u00a0 Once that was done, scaled display followed, using jef2png.py.\u00a0 For that to be really useful, it was necessary to identify the colours used.\u00a0 Between us, we have examined hundreds of patterns, and have identified almost every shade used in patterns. Hopefully the last handful will be found in the next week or so.\u00a0 You can see the changelog at http:\/\/bitbucket.org\/dboddie\/python-showjef\/overview\/ .\u00a0 David uses Mercurial, so it’s easy to keep up with his changes, and by downloading free JEF patterns from the web you can see his progress.\u00a0 One caveat – we have found a few patterns that don’t use the colour-definitions that seem to be otherwise standard.\u00a0 Until we find a common denominator it’s hard to do much about that.\u00a0 The good news is that of my hundreds of stored patterns only three or four have this problem.<\/p>\n

After all David’s work, it would be really nice if we could find a collaborator to turn this into a KDE-Other project.\u00a0 Maybe now purple-bobby knows that we haven’t lost interest he might join us?\u00a0 Maybe it’s just pricked your interest enough to talk about how this can be done.<\/p>\n

We don’t have much in the way of hobby applications.\u00a0 I’d like to see that addressed.\u00a0 Wendy van Craen says she’d like to see someone working on a crochet pattern creator.\u00a0 I know we have knitters among KDE contributors, and while the language of knitting varies enormously between countries, it’s not that hard to represent stitches in a kind of ascii art.\u00a0 Something that could create and store modules for stitch patterns and combine them would be great.\u00a0 KrossWordPuzzle 0.7.4 has just been announced, and how about creating some KrossNumberPuzzles?\u00a0 What about koffice templates for gardeners?\u00a0 Keeping track of plant collections, or tracking sowing, planting out, harvesting?\u00a0 I can see possibilities for databases and for spreadsheet templates.\u00a0 What other hobbies could we benefit?<\/p>\n

So – hobbyist KDE section?\u00a0 I think it is more than possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never give up on your dreams – FOSS can bring the most amazing results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,14],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-real-life","tag-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}