[kde-edu]: New KTouch version...

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 17 Abril 2006 23:30, Andreas Nicolai va escriure:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to announce a new KTouch version (so far the last in the KDE 3.5
> series) available on the source forge page: http://ktouch.sourceforge.net

What about announcing it on dot.kde.org and edu.kde.org?

Albert

>
> I won't be able to contribute much until summer, but if you find the time
> to download and try it out, I would like to collect some opinions and
> suggestions regarding:
>
> - what should be improved to make it better usable for children
> - what features are missing (see list below for planned features)
> - compared to other touch typing programs, what are the shortcomings of
> KTouch?
> - what do you think about the lectures? How could they be improved?
> - KTouch typing games: what kind of games can you think of (I had a few
> suggestions already, see below)
>
>
> As a small info ahead, here are the features I plan to have in KTouch 2.0
> which will be in KDE4:
>
> - better keyboard drawing engine to support different keyboard
> layouts/character sets, also more keys can be printed on each key
>
> - progressive build-up of the keyboard: only the keys that are known in the
> current level are drawn colored, others are still grey (thus helping kids
> to focus on the keys they should know so far)
>
> - games:
> ballon game: ballons with character draw on them fly up, press the correct
>              key and ***bang***
> block game: single colored blocks with characters fall down the screen in a
>             grid, pressing keys with the characteds makes blocks
> dissappear, press them in a correct order to align 4 blocks of the same
> color to get extra points
>
> - tests: for school kids and teachers, you can setup a test by defining the
> text to type (lecture and levels), and an optional time limit - during the
> test you cannot change settings like auto-level-advance or manual-level
> advance or anything else (to avoid cheating and give teachers the means to
> evaluate kids)
>
>
> Feel free to send me mails with you suggestions or post them on the list or
> file feature request... I would like to get KTouch as good as possible for
> the KDE4 release.
>
> Andreas
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