[kde-edu]: announcement

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

Hi Jos,

That rocks, thanks!
Maybe you can note down that Marble got a prize at the QtCenter contest: it 
was first in the Desktop Application category and third in the Custom Widget 
category
http://contest.qtcentre.org/results

Cheers,

Anne-Marie

Jos Poortvliet, vous avez écrit :
> Hi guys,
>
> thanks to all the work you've been doing, the edu part of KDE will get
> some attention in the release announcement ;-)
>
> I thus would like to collect some comments on the text below - how
> complete is it and what did I say wrong?
>
>
> Educational Software
>
>  As we have come to expect, a lot of work has going on in the
> educational area. Last month saw improvements in marble, KVoctrain
> (now renamed to Parley) and bugfixes.
>
> KVoctrain, an application which can be used to train language
> vocabulary, received usability work, features and a namechange. The
> new name, Parley, points to a discussion or conference, especially one
> between enemies over terms of truce or other matters. This fresh name
> is fitting for the shiney new interface. It became much easier and
> intuitive to start and display lectures, and the practice gui got
> improved as well. You can now skip configuration - just enter some
> words or get a vocabulary file through Get Hot New Stuff to practice,
> hit "practice" and you are on your way. Frederik Gladhorn also got to
> implement a three year old wish thanks to the new and easy "start
> test" dialog, making it possible to use arbitrary language
> combinations. Finally, Parley became more colorful when the picture
> support was added, which enables users to practise with pictures as
> well. edu Parley.png
>
>  Thanks to the work by Carlos Licea, Marble sports a new 2D projection
> where you can view the earth like a map. Marble also retrieves
> Wikipedia articles about cities you select. edu marble.png
>
>  On saturday the 15th of October, the KDE-Edu team had a polish day.
> This let to many fixes and improvements, most notably in Blinken,
> KGeography, KHangMan and Marble. Also a global sound issue has been
> fixed in all Edu apps, and currently there is investigation going on
> in the Get Hot New Stuff area.
>
>  After all this work, the edu team is now shifting gears and focusing
> on stabilization and translation work, though there still are some
> things in the pipeline.
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