In kalk you can see yours operations in real time. You can even go back and edit them if you made a mistake. This are extremely useful accessibility features that are missing in default kcalc. Add to that Kalk has very nice animations all over the app which gives a pleasant user experience compare.
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Disagree. It lacks functions and itās inferior to an alreadyā¦ābasicā kcalc. Iāve tried a couple and for a day to day, John Doe type of work, I actually found Uno calculator ( a windows calc clone, bottom right) one of the very best. If you want more, Iād say Qalculate.
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Yes, Qalculate! is the right tool.
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does it do RPN?
if not then itās no good to me.
Qalculate does about everything. If it had an engine it would probably drive me to Madrid tomorrow.
If Qalculate canāt do it, you wonāt find it. Thingās a beast.
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dare we speak the name Galculator? or is that not allowed in K space?
Of course, why not. But if you would be in need of some really serious calcing stuff, itās qalculate.
https://qalculate.github.io/manual/qalculate-introduction.html
Ps: that rpn mode you asked about is chapter 5.
I donāt even know who comes up with this stuff. Must be some geek with a name ending on stein in some basement. Thing even has configurable buttons.
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To throw another good one in the mix - I usually use SpeedCrunch
Not sure I would like KCalc to be replaced with it though.
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I have to say Windows calculator is the best calculator I have seen i terms of usability. It does everything and the UI elements are really useful especially the pin to the top function which will put calculator in the top even though it is not in focus.
Kcalc not only looks outdated it feels really really clunky to use for calculating. Honestly a new replacement or just improving Kalk (the QML version) would be a better idea.
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Pin to the foreground is a basic KDE Kwin feature since forever, you can either add the button to all alls decorations, or pin through the right click on the decoration bar.
I use speedcrunch but its not clickable. Its not a phone though so I dont get these calculators anyways.
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@medin, thank you! qalculate-qt is superb:
Iām absolutely amazed that this isnāt the default option for the DE. Does anyone think it would be worth formally requesting?
I just gave kalk a try on Ubuntu 24.04 (probably the plasma 5 version so forgive me if itās old), but like @dzon mentioned Iād have to disagree, itās missing a lot of basic features that kcalc hasā¦ in my case, thereās no programmers mode apart from a binary calculator.
Iām not a fan of kcalc but it does have the basic desktop calculator feature set and I think it would be better suited. I noticed that kcalc has also gotten some improvements in the latest plasma version which fixed some of my complaints.
My guess is that itās because qalculate has a steeper learning curve than a basic desktop calculator like kcalc, making it not suited for bundling in as part of a standard desktop.
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@9man, in what way? If Iād noticed that, I probably wouldnāt have said what I did, but I definitely didnāt. Do you perhaps mean that the GUI canāt be simplified as much as KCalcās can (like my screenshot depicts)?
On KDE any window can be pinned to the top. You can even add a button to the title bar for this, next to the usual āāĆ buttons
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#!/usr/bin/env -S bash kcmshell6 'kcm_kwindecoration'
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My apologies, youāre right. I wrote that out of memory, but it seems that I did not remember well. I downloaded qalculator-qt to give it a try to make sure, itās really not so hard to use after all for basic usage. It is really sophisticated if you need the advanced stuff. Though it does still seem intimidating for a beginner because of all the things it can do, so thatās what I remembered when I wrote that initial comment.
Actually, I think Iāll use qalculator-qt from now onā¦ itās great for programmers even cause I just realized you can resolve deicmal/hex/binary arithmetic very naturallyā¦ I really like this 
Now Iām thinking that KDE should replace kcalc with qalculate-qt, but ahh itās not under the KDE umbrella so itāll not happenā¦ unless they fork it.
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