Kugar

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Kugar
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Original author(s) Keith Davis
Developer(s) KDE, theKompany
Initial releaseSeptember 21, 2000 (2000-09-21) [1]
Final release
1.6.3 / June 7, 2007;14 years ago (2007-06-07) [2]
Written in C++ (Qt)
Operating system Unix-like
Available inMultilingual
Type Report generator
License GNU General Public License
Website www.thekompany.com/projects/kugar/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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 KParts 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.

Contents

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 21 September 2000 [1] which was based on K Desktop Environment 2 and Qt 2.2.0. [6] On 21 February 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 24 April 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 28 May 2010 [9] – served as replacement for Kugar. [10]

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