Blog :: Sune Vuorela

Category: qt

  • Kookbook 0.3.0 released

    I recently released version 0.3.0 of my recipe manager application Kookbook – find it in git in KDE Invent or as released tarballs in https://download.kde.org/stable/kookbook/

    Changes since last time is more or less “Minor bugfixes and a Qt6 port” – nothing as such noteworthy unless you aim to get rid of Qt5 on your system.

    so what is kookbook?
    It is a simple recipe viewer that works with semi-structured markdown. More details can be seen in the quite old 0.1.0 announcement

    At some point I should do a 10 recipe example collection, but my personal collection is in danish, so I’m not sure it is going to be useful. Unless someone will donate me some handfuls of pre-formatted recipes, I will happily announce it.

  • KookBook 0.2.1 – now actually kind of useful

    There was a snag in the KookBook 0.2.0 release, and 0.2.1 is available.

    Get it here: kookbook-0.2.1.tar.xz

    Btw, anyone can tell me the purpose of

    compared to

    When would anyone use the former?

  • KookBook 0.2.0 available – now manage your cooking recipes better

    I got a bit traction on KookBook and decided to fix a few bugs, mostly in the touch client, and add some features.

    Get it here: kookbook-0.2.0.tar.xz

    KookBook is now also available in Debian, thanks to Stuart Prescott

    KRecipe converter
    Some people has a large recipe collection in KRecipe and would like to try out KookBook. I wrote a convertion python script now available. It works in “current directory” and reads the krecipe database from there and outputs KookBook markdown files in same repository. It has so far been tried on 1 database.

    Bug fixes

    • Fix install of touch client
    • Fixes in desktop files
    • Fixes in touch client’s file open dialog
    • Touch client now show images in recipes
    • You could end up with no dock widgets and no toolbar and no way to recover in the desktop client. This is now fixed
    • Build fixes

    Future
    Some people have started talking about maybe translation of the interface. I might look into that in the future.

    And I wouldn’t be sad if some icon artists provided me with a icon slightly better than the knife I drew. Feel free to contact me if that’s the case.

    Happy kooking!

  • Kolorfill 0.1.0 released

    Continuing in Aurelien Gateau‘s release month, where I recently joined in with Kookbook, I’m now also following up with Kolorfill, an app I also described in the past.

    It is a simple flood filling game written using the amazing Kirigami framework.

    Kolorfill

    Have fun with it.

  • Kookbook 0.1 – write and manage your kitchen recipes

    Release Time

    A little while ago, I blogged about an application I was writing for my cooking recipes.

    I have now gotten to a point where I will declare it version 0.1. The release can be found on a KDE Download server near you: https://download.kde.org/unstable/kookbook/kookbook-0.1.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist.

    Desktop app

    As written back then, Kookbook is basically displaying markdown, parses semi-structured markdown for ingredients and tags and allows accessing the recipes that way. Kookbook also offers to open a system editor for editing the content.

    This is the “normal” view:

    Support for images in recipes has also been added since previous blog post.

    Mobile app
    Since the may blog post, I have also written a little more basic touch-friendly user interface. It does not offer the full set of desktop features, namely it doesn’t offer to launch an editor for you, and it also only allows to access the recipes thru their names, not thru all the other ways of finding recipes. Though the last part is up to discussion for further releases.

    The main page looks like

    And lets you search thru the titles to find the one you are after.

    The recipe view is more or less the same.

    The code

    The code itself is mit/x11 licensed, and contains a couple of interesting bits that others might want to take advantage of:

    • Kirigami file dialog. Could be polished and upstreamed.
    • Qt Markdown capability (with libdiscount). Could be librarifyied

    Have fun
    Go forth, do cooking. And feel free to share recipes. Or create patches.

  • Post Akademy

    So, it has been a busy week of Qt and KDE hacking in the beautiful city of Vienna.
    Besides getting quite some of the Viennese staple food, schnitzel, it was an interesting adventure of getting smarter.

    • Getting smarter about making sure what happens in North Korea doesn’t stay in North Korea
    • Getting smarter about what is up with this newfangled Wayland technology and how KDE uses it
    • Getting smarter about how to Konquer the world and welcoming new contributors
    • Getting smarter about opensource licensing compliance
    • Getting smarter about KItinerary, the opensource travel assistant
    • Getting smarter about TNEF, a invitation transport format that isn’t that neutral
    • Getting smarter about Yocto, automotive and what KDE can do

    And lots of other stuff.

    Besides getting smarter, also getting to talk to people about what they do and to write some patches are important events.
    I also wrote some code. Here is a highlight:

    And a lot of other minor things, including handling a couple of Debian bugs.

    What I’m hoping to either put to my own todolist, or preferably others, is

    I felt productive, welcome and … ready to sleep for a week.

  • The smart button

    I don’t always understand why people do things in some ways.

  • Partially initialized objects

    I found this construct some time ago. It took some reading to understand why it worked. I’m still not sure if it is actually legal, or just works only because m_derivedData is not accessed in Base::Base.

  • Kirigaming – Kolorfill

    Last time, I was doing a recipe manager. This time I’ve been doing a game with javascript and QtQuick, and for the first time dipping my feet into the Kirigami framework.

    I’ve named the game Kolorfill, because it is about filling colors. It looks like this:

    Kolorfill

    The end goal is to make the board into one color in as few steps as possible. The way to do it is “Paint bucket”-tool from top left corner with various colors.

    But enough talk. Let’s see some code:
    https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/sune/kolorfill.git/

    And of course, there is some QML tests for the curious.
    A major todo item is saving the high score and getting that to work. Patches welcome. Or pointer to what QML components that can help me with that.

  • Managing cooking recipes

    I like to cook. And sometimes store my recipes. Over the years I have tried KRecipes, kept my recipes in BasKet notes, in KJots notes, in more or less random word processor documents.

    I liked the free form entering recipes in various notes applications and word processor documents, but I lacked some kind of indexing them. What I wanted was free-ish text for writing recipes, and some thing that could help me find them by tags I give them. By Title. By how I organize them. And maybe by Ingredient if I don’t know how to get rid of the soon-to-be-bad in my refridgerator.

    Given I’m a software developer, maybe I should try scratch my own itch. And I did in the last month and a half during some evenings. This is also where my latest Qt and modern C++ blog posts comes from

    The central bit is basically a markdown viewer, and the file format is some semi structured markdown in one file per recipe. Structured in the file system however you like it.

    There is a recipes index which simply is a file system view with pretty titles on top.

    There is a way to insert tags into recipes.

    I can find them by title.

    And I can find recipes by ingredients.

    Given it is plain text, it can easily be synced using Git or NextCloud or whatever solution you want for that.

    You can give it a spin if you want. It lives here https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/sune/kookbook.git/. There is a blueprint for a windows installer here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12828

    There is a markdown file describing the specifics of the file format. It is not declared 100% stable yet, but I need good reasons to break stuff.

    My recipe collection is in my native language Danish, so I’m not sure sharing it for demo purposes makes too much sense.