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The KDE community recently announced the release of KDE Gear 26.4, which includes a new version of Cantor. As KDE's front end for scientific interactive computing, Cantor has taken a significant step forward with this release. Read More

Cantor, the frontend to scientific interactive computing developed by KDE community, got a new release this month. Our developers are adding some usability improvements and some initial results from GSoC projects are now available with the 20.08 release. Read More

KDE is once again taking part in Google Summer of Code program and this time Cantor has 2 internships working to improve the software and bringing new features. Both projects are supervised by Alexander Semke and Stefan Gerlach. Read More

We continue working on improving the usability of Cantor. Another important change in 20.04 is the new feature collapsible cells which allows the user to collapse the results of a calculation. This is useful when doing many calculation in one worksheet and there is the need to hide some of the results temporarily to get more place in the worksheet or to be less distracted by what is not needed right now. For this, we introduced a new control element for every cell in the worksheet. By double clicking on this new element the result part of the cell is collapsed. Read More

Recently, the KDE community announced the release 19.12 of KDE applications, inlcuding Cantor. Many highlights of this release are mentioned in the release announcement. Today we'd like to highlight the development done in Cantor for the 19.12 release Read More

(Original post written by Alexander Semke in Labplot's blog) Since the last year the development in Cantor is keeping quite a good momentum. After many new features and stabilization work done in the 18.12 release, see this blog post for an overview, we continued to work on improving the application in 19.04. Today the release of KDE Applications 19.08, and with this of Cantor 19.08, was announced. Also in this release we concentrated mostly on improving the usability of Cantor and stabilizing the application. See the ChangeLog file for the full list of changes. Read More

This year Cantor has a slot in Google Summer of Code program. The developer Nikita Sirgienko, mentored by Alexander Semke, is working to provide support to Jupyter notebooks in Cantor. Read More

Cantor new version was released with KDE Applications 19.04 bundle. The main changes are: Possibility to hide and show results of command entry via context menu; Add a way to specify the path to the local documentation for Maxima, Octave, Python and R backends; Huge improvements in variable management. Read the complete changelog for this version of Cantor in KDE Applications 19.04 Full Log Page.

(Original post written by Alexander Semke in Labplot's blog) Curious to read about Cantor on LabPlot’s homepage? This is easy to explain. Cantor has got quite a lot of development in the last couple of months, also with great contribution from LabPlot developers. There is a close collaboration between these two KDE projects which we hope to intensify even further in future and to make better use of the common code and human resources in order to provide a strong computational and visualization platform for scientific purposes. Read More

Cantor new version was released with KDE Applications 18.12 bundle. The main changes are: Add Markdown entry type; Animated highlighting of the currently calculated command entry; Visualization of pending command entries (queued, but not being calculated yet); Allow to format command entries (background color, foreground color, font properties); Allow to insert new command entries at arbitrary places in the worksheet by placing the cursor at the desired position and by start typing; For expressions having multiple commands, show the results as independent result objects in the worksheet Add support for opening worksheets by relative paths from console; Add support for opening multiple files in one Cantor shell; Change the color and the font for when asking for additional information in order to better discriminate from the usual input in the command entry; Added shortcuts for the navigation across the worksheets (Ctrl+PageUp, Ctrl+PageDown); Add action in 'View' submenu for zoom reset; Enable downloading of Cantor projects from store.kde.org (at the moment upload works only from the website); Open the worksheet in read-only mode if the backend is not available on the system. Read the complete changelog for this version of Cantor in KDE Applications 18.12 Full Log Page.