lundi, février 15, 2010

OOo4Kids 0.8

The current version of OOo4Kids is 0.8

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 at this URL

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 is proposed for integration into OpenOffice.org.

OOo4Kids is a 7-12 years children Office suite,
based on 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 essential changes since 0.6 are

- New Start center (new design by Ben Bois)
- Ooo4Kids is now based on OOO320_m11 OpenOffice.org source code (m12 for trunk)
- default user interface scale is now 115% by default (better adaptated for children)
- modified toolbar with 3 new buttons added (Writer, expert mode)

The latest biggest bugfixes since 0.6 are :

- several crashes when launching Ooo4Kids in command line are fixed
- Windows : directly launch any application is now supported (no more crash)
- Fixed the crash, when clicking on the icon, while OOo4Kids is already launched
- mismatch with color/security tabs in preferences issue is fixed
- Mac OS X : the new Apple remote (metallic, 2009 model) works

For further information, please read the changelog

Last but not least, don't forget that we propose a portable version for Windows

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publié par ericb @ lundi, février 15, 2010