[kde-edu]: KVocTrain-Parlez

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 9/20/07, Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn at gmx.de> wrote:
> Morning all!
>
> Ok, here's my point of view, I guess.
> Many of Iljas comments are really good and I implemented some improvements
> thanks to him. That is very good.
>
> But Ilja, your tone does not motivate me. I get the feeling that you demand of
> me to do work. I don't want that. I'm not here to be commanded around.
> Some things that you demand are simply wrong.
>
> So my point is: Only negative feedback (welcome too) will not keep me going
> for ever. Please use nicer words, recognize that there is progress, ask
> questions nicely. Your input is valuable! Don't make me ignore it because of
> bad packaging :)

Then what about a big hug from me ;-)
Love your work, Parley very cool!!!

> Instead of complaining, I will go back to coding now :)
>
> I wish you all a great day!
> F
>
>
> Ilja:
> There is for example a fine but important distinction between Language and the
> Title. What should people do that practice files containing two columns of
> English? Like word-definition. Should they have to lie about the language? ;)
> Also there is a reason why image and sound are not officially there. I added
> both in one afternoon in one place to play around with the gui. They will
> probably not show up in the KDE 4.0 release anyway.
>
>
>
>
> El Thursday 20 September 2007, Anne-Marie Mahfouf escribió:
> > Hi Ilja,
> >
> > Please be patient with Parley as this program just started!
> > Of course we can rename .kvtml files but see, we just reworked the format
> > (Frederik and Jeremy did) and we are now testing it. Renaming is a LOT of
> > work.  We do all this on our free time and this is not extensible.
> > You have very good ideas but we just cannot make them happen in one click
> > of our fingers.
> >
> > About the website: if you see the commits, Frederik is working on it and
> > has been doing so intensively. He just cannot work more quickly!!!
> > We need someone to work on the Edu website as some content is obsolete, so
> > please any people willing to help, come forward!
> >
> > We're all doing our best and we're glad you are interested in Parley.
> > However we cannot implement all your ideas or fixe all the bug reports you
> > issue in a few days. I want to keep Frederik in the KDE-Edu team and I want
> > him having fun working on Parley. He is starting to be a bit downcast and
> > overhelmed by your remarks.
> > I hope you understand all this.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Anne-Marie
> > KDE-Edu coordinator
> >
> > On Thursday 20 September 2007 14:01:39 Ilja wrote:
> > > 2007/9/20, Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn at gmx.de>:
> > > >> Now, onto my feature requests:
> > > >> Sound so I can hear a native speaker say the word.
> > > >> Images so I can optionally use an image rather than the native
> > > >> language equivalent.
> > > >
> > > > Both will come pretty soon.
> > >
> > > Maybe offtopic, but anyway.
> > > Currently only relative links to files are saved in new kvtml:
> > > ..
> > > <image>../../../WinXP/[..]/My Documents/Pure.jpg</image>
> > > <sound>../../../WinXP/[..]/My Documents/random.mp3</sound>
> > > ..
> > > Which is of course isn't the best way to do it.
> > >
> > > So I hope it will be done like e.g. ODF, it means as an archive where
> > > would be "images" and "sounds" directories and current kvtml file, but
> > > only with links to files in the same archive? (And so on...)
> > >
> > > And extension would be changed to e.g. "KVD" (Kde Vocabulary
> > > Document)? So much as I understand current .kvtml means
> > > something like "KVocTrain Markup Language"?
> >
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