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OOo4Kids 0.6 and Happy New Year !!

For the new year, EducOOo and the OpenOffice.org Education Project are proud to announce OOo4Kids 0.6 is out, and can be downloaded at :

=> Download.ooo4Kids.org website


If you want to help us, to find resource and contribute back to improve OpenOffice.org, via the OpenOffice.org Education Project, donations are welcome

OOo4Kids is made for Educational purpose, has been thought to work with students, making them discover OpenOfice.org source code, without constraints, but just code, and having Fun.
The promise is, when the code is good enough, it will be proposed for integration into OpenOffice.org.

OOo4Kids is a 7-12 years children Office suite, based on OpenOffice.org ( http://www.openoffice.org ) source code. This means OpenOffice.org has some features OOo4Kids has not (like Base and Java). And if you need those features, please use OpenOffice.org, that you can download at : Download OpenOffice.org. Please do not forget that the software is provided as it, and that you will use it at your own risks. Do not forget to do a backup either.



The latest changes since 0.5.1 are:

* (experimental) Portable OOo4Kids for Windows the following locales are provided :
- en-US, fr, de, es, nl, it, pt
- zh-CN is provided too - thanks to Julien Forgeat for the translation - but not tested (can be unusable)
Please use them with caution, and report us any bug you found.

* New layout ( thanks to Ben Bois for the icons, and Vincent Ruffiot for the screenshot) :
- fixed the white effect on right
- fixed the look




* New toolbars behavior : now, the toolbars content depend on the
User's Level ( can be changed in the prefs).
See : Toolbars and User Level for
further information.

* New locales are provided :
- Italian,
- Chinese (simplified),
- Dutch
(previous existing locales : English-US, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish)

* New XO port : OOo4Kids has been "Sugarized", means it does respect Sugar tree, and the .xo archive installs like any other activity.

* More OOo4Kids icons

* Linux : .deb and .rpm buildable (yet some bugs)
* Linux : language packs buildable (will be used for XO port)

* Experimental : modified the UI in the prefs, adding the "password" feature, to protect the prefs (avoiding children doing wrong actions).
* Will be implemented in 0.7. It is scheduled that the password will be enabled by default.


* Next step :
- choose the definitive toolbars content, per level, and following the teachers recommandations
- fix more issues with .deb and .rpm
- more bugfixes
- implement the password feature

=> Further information : see the roadmap



Season Greatings, and (almost) Happy New Year to all of you !!

Libellés : Education Project, EducOOo, High Tech, OOo4Kids, Portable OOo4Kids

publié par ericb @ jeudi, décembre 31, 2009