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<div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Using suse studio to create a different distro:<br>While this sounds great and could be successful, I would worry about
support if people were to encounter difficulties. Imagine if you will a new user trying this distro out and it not working right away. Where would they go for assistance? Most likely their searches are going to lead to places where they find themselves unsure about things. In my opinion it would be a better use of our efforts to offer our support to existing distributions and encourage kde-edu that way.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Support can be done only on a very local level: this is why I said doing it here for the school of my kids and for neighbours would not be a problem.<br><br>If there are existing distributions (which is much more interesting, because it means I could concentrate on contents alone): I will be happy to use them. But: how do we get the data in? Having to give additional CDs to pass along the data ... hmmm ... but it could be a way ... it is more likely to have people copy a data file to their computer than to install an application. So if we run from a DVD which can access the local hd, then things are already somewhat better, in particular if we distribute not only .kvtml files, but eventually also e-books on that data cd/dvd which IMHO is much easier to maintain as well.<br>
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<br>Having said that, I realize that edubuntu is no longer packaged as a single iso, but rather as an addon to ubuntu making it much harder to test out using a live CD/DVD (or even live usb stick). Perhaps our efforts here could be best utilized in supporting a few distributions and making a live version with the kde-edu packages included available using rBulder (or a similar tool).<br>
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<div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>KDE on Windows:<br>I have tested this numerous times and this project has come along way and I would like to see it continue to
develop. However, I have been reluctant to inform them of some of the fantastic programs available in kde-edu because it is more than they can handle. It isn't easy for them to get up and running even with KDE on Windows. If we were to bundle individual kde-edu programs as standalone executables on Windows I think we could/would have better results and could grow the user base. If you are skeptical about this I would suggest you look at a great program that does this fairly well, the GIMP. I have many colleagues who do use this because of the ease with which they can install and run it.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>KDE on Windows runs fine, but even a quite experienced user, a colleague of mine in VH who still is on Windows had some questions on what to choose etc. So it is not a software problem, but eventually a documentation? (It could well be that I simply did not see the documentation ... as I said I am on Ubuntu and we resolved via IRC).<br>
<br>Yes, having applications work like the GIMP would be great. Though I don't have a clue on what this can mean in terms of organisation and programming.<br> </div><div>As for the rest of the mail: this is far from the reality here and therefore not applicable. <br>
<br>Cheers, Sabine<br></div></div>