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Revision as of 22:22, 12 November 2014
Krecipes is a program that lets you to manage your recipes, create shopping lists, choose a recipe based on available ingredients and plan your menu/diet in advance. |
Overview
The goal of this project was creating a KDE Recipe Tool that:
- Can manage a recipe database with an easy to use interface
- Allows creation/removal of new ingredients and units
- Helps with diets, calculating amount of calories, vitamines, carbohydrates... per recipe
- Creates shopping lists, and daily suggestions for a given diet type
- Based on SQL, supporting various database types (currently it supports SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL).
- Should be as flexible as possible to have the possibility to extend it in future.
Main features
Recipes Search
- Creates a recipe database, using SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL, using a comfortable interface
- Recipes can be searched by name or by ingredients included or to be omitted. Simply type in the a part of a recipe name and all those recipes are instantly available to view, edit, or print. If you'd like to fine-tune your search, the advanced search also allows you to search by title as well as any combination of categories, ingredients, preparation time, authors, servings, or instruction text.
- It's also possible to search on source, yield, preparation time, and several other criteria
- Recipes are entered an edited on a similar screen. Entry is speeded by the use of drop-down menus using text prediction
Edit Recipes
Using the three input tabs, you will fill in the details of your recipes. On the first tab is the title, authors, categories, preparation time, and yield. On the next you may input ingredients, and on the last is the instructions.
- Ingredients and instructions can be pasted in if a text file already exists
- Recipes can be printed for inclusion in scrapbooks, etc.
- Files can be imported from an existing Krecipes database
- As well as from "MasterCook" 4, 5 or 6, "Meal-Master", "RecipeML", "Rezconf" or “Now You're Cooking”
- It is also possible to export to many formats
- Backup and Restore of database is fully supported.
- Add recipes to your shopping list. When you are done, Krecipes will list all the ingredients necessary, combining units for you automatically, and give you a list ready to print.
- Nutrient values can be used to help you plan any diet
Diet Helper
- You can search for recipes based on what you have in your store cupboard. Plan out your meals for a day, a few days, or even weeks. Give Krecipes information on what you'd like each of your meals to contain, limit the amount of particular nutrient property (fat, energy, etc.), and Krecipes will do the rest.
- Conversion tables help you move between Americal measure and metric
Advanced Database Management
Krecipes takes full advantage of the power of relational databases. Categories, ingredients, units, etc. are stored as separate identities which are linked to recipes when used. You can rename one of these in one place, and all recipes using that element are automatically updated.
When importing recipes from an external source, you may find many misspellings and strange capitalization. Simply rename these elements in the "Data" panel to correct all your recipes. For example, you may have the categories "Vegtables" and "Vegatables". Rename "Vegtables" to "Vegatables" and the merge feature will put all the recipes under these two categories into the right category.
This is only a very sketchy overview. There are many more features to be explored in the Handbook. The Project Page has links to Help and Discussion forums
Contribute
Coding
We welcome anyone with knowledge of C++ to contribute code, but even if you're not a programmer, here's some other ways you can help, see below
Unless specified elsewhere, you should send contributions to the Krecipes group in KDE Review Board
Reporting bugs
You can use the KDE Bug Tracking System to report bugs.
Translating
- If you want to translate krecipes you should work inside your local KDE translation team. If you are keen you may want to lurk here. Check the current state of Krecipe's translations for your language and, if you feel brave, ask to join a translation team :)
- User interface: We could always use help translating into as many languages as possible. Note that the current 2.0 branch is not on string freeze, however some translation teams are working in krecipes anyway, so feel free to join your local translation team and work.
- Handbook: Currently the handbook in english is very outdated, please wait for instructions.
- Sample recipes: We are figuring out a technical solution and proper workflow to do this, please wait for instructions.
Giving Feedback
Give us your feedback in the Krecipes Forums or in #krecipes IRC channel at FreeNode.
Handbook
The handbook is being updated for the KDE 4 port of Krecipes and unfortunately it's not finished yet, you can check it here.
Download
Downloading And Compiling The Latest (2.0-beta2) Release
You can download the latest release or see other releases in the "files" section of the sourceforge page. You can see main changes in this version in the ChangeLog page.
Building The Latest Release Just untar the package first:
tar -zxf krecipes-[VERSION_NUMBER].tar.gz
And compile
cmake . make make install
Downloading, Building And Installing The Latest Development Version With Git
The project is being developed under extragear/utils in KDE's servers.
To download the source code, do:
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/krecipes
To update the source code, do:
cd krecipes git pull
To build and install it in the default prefix (usually /usr/local):
mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make make install
To build and install it in other prefix, for instance ~/.kde/:
mkdir build && cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.kde/ make make install
Also if you install it in ~/.kde/ you may want to set the following variables in your .bashrc (or wherever it's appropiate for you):
export PATH=~/.kde/bin:${PATH} export MANPATH=~/.kde/man:$(manpath) export KDEDIRS=~/.kde:/usr export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~/.kde/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.kde/lib
To uninstall it:
cd build && make uninstall
Contact
- Krecipes devel mailing list
- Krecipes IRC channel; named #krecipes, located at FreeNode
Authors
The Old Krecipes Crew
- Jason Kivlighn
- Unai Garro
- Cyril Bosselut
- Colleen Beamer (who wrote the handbook)
People who worked actively in the KDE 4 port but who are not working in the project at the moment
- Daniel Sauvé
- Laurent Montel
The current developers
- José Manuel Santamaría Lema
- Martin Engelmann