[kde-edu]: announcement

[Inge Wallin]

On Friday 12 October 2007 11:57, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Added.

It actually got *two* prizes: Best desktop app, and 3rd best qt custom widget.

	-Inge

> > 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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Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
                          |      "After three days without programming,     |
inge at lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."                |
                          | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |