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Switching OOo4Kids and OOoLight to AOOo3.4 code base

Eric Bachard — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:06:00 +0200

English :

I'll have some time, and since Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is released, it's time to switch OOo4Kids and OOoLight base to Apache OpenOffice source code.

Work in progress. Stay tuned ;-)

Version française :

Je vais avoir un peu de temps, et comme Apache OpenOffice 3.4 vient de sortir, il est temps de baser OOo4Kids et OOoLight sur le code source d'apache OpenOffice.

Travail en cours. À suivre ;-)

Google is like Hotel California ...

Eric Bachard — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:58:00 +0200

English version

Recently was the Google Summer of Code. Apache OpenOffice received no slot and like other mentors from accepted applications in the same situation, I'd like to unsubscribe from Google lists.

After asking on the list, looks like this is not possible !!

Google is like Eagles Hotel California song : " you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave ..."

[UPDATE] : I'm now unsubscribed (uff). Thanks to the admin who helped me.

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Version française

Récemment, c'était le Google Summer of Code. Apache OpenOffice n'a pas reçu de financement, et comme d'autres mentors de projets acceptés qui sont dans la même situation, je voudrais me désabonner de la liste Google-summer-machin-chose.

Après avoir demandé sur la liste, on dirait que ce n'est pas possible !!

Google, c'est comme dans la chanson Hotel California des Eagles : "vous pouvez quitter l'hotel quand vous voulez, mais vous ne pouvez jamais partir ..."

[MISE À JOUR] : je suis maintenant désabonné (ouf). Merci à l'admin qui m'a aidé.

Apache OpenOffice proposals for GSoC 2012

Eric Bachard — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:56:00 +0100

Here are the subjects I proposed for GSoC2012 :

Implement online SVG Gallery in Apache OpenOffice
Open and manage Maxima sessions in Writer documents
Implement the Image rotation in Apache OpenOffice Writer, using Draw/Impress objects
Implement Impress OpenGL 3D transitions on Mac OS X and improve them (implement reverse transition, according to backward / forward sense)

On the ODF side, two proposals (thanks to Rob Weir and Svante Schubert) :

Want to contact us ?

IRC : server irc.freenode.net channel #dev.openoffice.org , or (#ooo4kids)
Mailing lists :see Apache OpenOffice lists (search for ooo-dev list)

Further information :

Apache and GSoC: Apache on melange
The general GSoC Homepage

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Many thanks to Ben Bois, author of the Logo

Apache Software Foundation accepted as application for GSoC 2012 !

Eric Bachard — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:15:00 +0100

I finaly found one minute to apply as mentor for the Apache Software Foundation, and improve Apache OpenOffice. Waiting for the answer. If accepted, I'll propose several subjects for students and it will be my 5th participation as GSoC mentor !!

Stay tuned ...

Contribute to OOo4Kids and OOoLight

Eric Bachard — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:58:00 +0100

English version :

A simple reminder if you want to contribute to OOo4Kids and / or OOoLight or simply help us :

International mailing list : click to subscribe

Our nice Wiki

IRC (discuss directly with us !) :

server : irc.freenode.net
channel : #ooo4Kids

See you soon !!

>> EducOOo supports Apache OpenOffice

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Version française :

Un rappel si vous souhaitez contribuer à OOo4Kids et/ou OOoLight, ou même simplement nous aider :

Notre liste de discussion internationale : cliquer pour s'inscrire

Notre super Wiki

IRC (pour discuter en direct avec nous !) :

serveur : irc.freenode.net
canal : #ooo4Kids

À bientôt !!

>> EducOOo recommande Apache OpenOffice

Annotation mode improvement (OOo4Kids Impress)

Eric Bachard — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:59:00 +0100

English version (version Française ci-dessous)

I decided to continue the work started by the students of Ecole Centrale Nantes, improving the user experience with the Impress annotation mode (OOo4Kids Impress).

Previously, when you right click, you had everything proposed. e.g. in cursor mode, the submenu "change the eraser width" was proposed. Was a bit suboptimal ... o_O

The idea was to simplify. See below the result. Note: Mac OS X will show the blue arrow, because checkbox seems to not work. Investigating ...

1. Pen mode : only propose the Pen features

2. Cursor mode : no longer display the Pen nor the Eraser possibilities

3. Eraser mode : same idea, only propose to select the width.

If you don't like these changes, or if ever you can explain there is a good reason to not add the feature in the coming OOo4Kids 1.3, please contact me.

And Happy New Year 2012 !!

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Version Française (english version above)

J'ai décidé de continuer le travail des étudiants de l'Ecole Centrale Nantes, en améliorant l'expérience utilisateur. En particulier, j'ai travaillé sur l'amélioration du mode annotations (OOo4Kids Impress).

Dans la version précédente, avec le clic-droit, tout était proposé dans le menu contextuel. Par exemple, le sous menu "modifier la largeur de la gomme était proposé, même en mode curseur. Ce qui n'était pas très utile.

L'idée a consisté à simplifier ce menu contextuel. Voir les copies décran ci-dessous pour avoir un aperçu (en attandant la sortie de OOo3Kids 1.3). Note: les checkboxes ne semblent pas fonctionner, c'est la raison pour laquelle la "flèche bleue" est utilisée sur cet OS. Je cherche activement ce qui ne fonctionne pas.

1. Mode stylo: proposer seulement les fonctionnalités du stylo

2. Mode curseur : ne plus afficher les possibilités de la gomme dans ce mode.

3. Mode gomme : même idée, se limiter à proposer simplement de modifier la taille de la gomme.

Si vous n'aimez pas ces améliorations, ou si vous connaissez une bonne raison de ne pas les ajouter dans OOo4Kids 1.3 qui sortira prochainement, merci de me contacter !

Et Bonne Année 2012 à tous !

OOo4Kids and OOoLight need translators

Eric Bachard — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:35:00 +0100

OOoLight and OOo4Kids are both shipped with the Presenter Screen included (full integration). One student who tested it remarked it was not translated. Starting the process ...

Any hepl is welcome, and if you want to participate, the instructions are provided on the current dedicated wiki page.

Thanks in advance and Happy New Year 2012 !!

How to save 6 MB in OOo4Kids or OOoLight set, creating customized enlighted icu datas

Eric Bachard — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:43:00 +0100

How I saved 6MB in OOo4Kids install set (Windows and Mac OS X only)

Thanks to Eike Rathke who posted a lot of usefull information about how to enlight icu data.

So did I. First step, I went there to create the archive, to be downloaded. Following the instructions, I unckecked the features as follow (this is a test, and everybody can improve). See the screenshot showing the options I unchecked :

IMPORTANT : the screenchot concerns only 4.0 ! If your ICU is another version, please go to : http://apps.icu-project.org/datacustom/ICUData40.html and click another icu version to change

Preliminary : read the help ...

As example, the process on Mac OS X :

unzip the archive you downloaded : result is icudt40l.dat
extract icudt40l.dat
replace the existing one in the icu archive
cd icu (in OOo4Kids sources)
replace the existing icudt40l.dat in icu/unxmacxi.pro/misc/build/icu/source/data/in
recreate the archive :
Decompress the old .tar.gz containing the fat icudt40l.dat: tar zxvf icu4c-4_0_1-src.tgz icu
replace the big icudt40l.dat with the lighter one extracted from the archive you downloaded.
create a new archive : tar cvzf icu4c-4_0_1-src.tgz icu
replace the old .tgz with the lighter one, and you should

Note: I didn't commit the change in OOo4Kids nor OOoLight yet, because I'd like to see several locales to be tested first.

That's how I saved 6MB in OOo4Kids and OOoLight (Windows and Mac OS X, not Linux) !!

To be continued ...

Original links :

Mike Whiteley proposal : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-December/022510.html
Eike Rathke answer : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-December/022609.html

In progress : native support of the SVG graphic format in Apache OpenOffice.org

Eric Bachard — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:30:00 +0100

English version :

Apache OpenOffice.org is gradually recovering from his transfer to the Apache Foundation. Until the release of the first version, new features appear. Here's one: the native support for graphics files of type .svg (for Scalable Vector Graphics)

The announcement, however, is passed virtually unnoticed when Armin Le Grand (ex Oracle, one of the Impress original authors) said he was working on the implementation of the import of SVG natively in Apache OpenOffice.org.

This feature was one of the most requested (see Issue 2497), and Armin did it!

Wow :-)

But what is he doing? Simply to use graphics files in svg format in Apache OpenOffice.org, without headhache to install a thing or something, . This feature was expected for years in OpenOffice.org (one wonders why this has never been done before?). So I proposed to Armin test its code, and help to the best of my ability.

After quickly compiled the sources, this is what happens:

Links files used for the screenshot:

Technically, this native implementation has eliminated several outbuildings, including libraries librsvg, libcroco, libgsf, gdk-pixbuf, glib, and pango gettext, causing a big simplification, if not the elimination of a large knot in the code .

As wrote Armin : "The new Svg implementation does no longer hide the Svg in an attached Metafile as binary in a new Metafile action, it is (as it should be in ODF) added as link and to the Pictures subdirectory (was it pictures ? Not sure currently). I have implemented a MultiImage support for Frames as allowed in the ODF spec which will not only work with Svg. The office now takes the Image with highest value to use further, e.g. preferring vector graphics over bitmap and bitmap with transparency over bitmap without and loseless compress over compress with loss, YOu get the idea. For Svg it saves a png as replacerplacement and the Svg which is used at reload. Older offices will use the Png, since those implementations only load one (and thus the first) image. "

On my side, I will (try to) fully analyze the code written, and I hope to better understand the impressive work has been done. Very briefly, the patch has requested changes in 19 modules, and called for the rewriting engine svg, including the parser, and the import (export does not seem to work properly). To this must be added the removal of support for the old record (mainly in vcl). There is a significant use of basegfx (already used in the new drawingLayer, also written by Armin).

Sources are available in the svgreplacement branch, and for now, the compilation can not be completed if one is not familiar with the code of OpenOffice. Org (see http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source . html). Problems, especially due to the cleaning of the code that is not compatible with the Apache license, however, should be resolved soon.

Possible improvements: Integrate OpenCLipart in Apache OpenOffice.org (and in OOo4Kids and OOoLight of course).

Stay tuned;-)

Usefull links :

Version Française :

Apache OpenOffice.org se remet progressivement de son transfert à la Fondation Apache. En attendant la sortie de la première version, de nouvelles fonctionnalités apparaissent. En voici une : la prise en charge native des fichiers graphiques de type .svg

L'annonce est pourtant passée quasi inaperçue quand Armin Le Grand (ex Oracle, auteur original d'Impress), à expliqué qu'il travaillait sur l'implémentation de l'import du SVG natif dans Apache OpenOffice.org.

Cette fonctionnalité était une des plus demandées (voir Issue 2497), et il l'a fait !!

Wow :-)

Mais de quoi s'agit-il en fait ? Tout simplement, pouvoir utiliser, sans se prendre la tête à installer un truc ou un machin, des fichiers graphiques au format svg dans Apache OpenOffice.org. Cette fonctionnalité était attendue depuis des années dans OpenOffice.org (on se demande pourquoi cela n'a jamais été fait avant ?). J'ai donc proposé à Armin de tester son code, et de l'aider dans la mesure de mes possibilités.

Après avoir rapidement compilé les sources, voilà ce que cela donne :

Liens des fichiers utilisés pour la copie d'écran :

Techniquement, cette implémentation native a permis de supprimer plusieurs dépendances, dont les bibliothèques librsvg, libcroco, libgsf, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gettext et pango, entraînant une grosse simplification, pour ne pas dire la suppression d'un gros noeud dans le code.

Je vais (essayer d') analyser complètement le code écrit, et j'espère ainsi mieux comprendre le travail impressionnant qui a été réalisé.

Très succintement, le patch a demandé des modifications dans 19 modules, et a demandé la réécriture du moteur svg, comprenant le parseur, et l'import (l'export ne semble pas encore fonctionner correctement).

À celà, il faut ajouter la suppression de la prise en charge de l'ancien rendu (principalement dans vcl). On note une utilisation importante de basegfx (déjà utilisé dans le nouveau drawinglayer, lui aussi écrit par Armin).

Cette implémentation évite aussi de devoir inclure le fichier SVG dans un métafichier, en tant que binaire mais plutôt en tant qu'image, dans un sous répertoire, conformément à ce que demande l'ODF. Toujours en conformité avec ce que permet la spécification ODF, un support pour les Cadres MultiImage a été aussi implémenté.

À suivre: je suis en train de déchiffrer le code pour essayer de comprendre ce qui est affiché, mais il semble que le SVG soit interprété et transformé en .png. Ce .png sera l'image réellement affichée. Ceci jusqu'à une éventuelle modification, ce qui créera alors un nouveau .png ..etc

Les sources sont disponibles dans la branche svgreplacement, et pour l'instant, la compilation ne peut pas se terminer si on ne connaît pas bien le code d'OpenOffice.org (voir http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html ). Les problèmes, surtout dûs au nettoyage du code qui n'est pas compatible avec la licence Apache, devraient toutefois être résolus prochainement.

Améliorations possibles: intégrer OpenCLipart dans Apache OpenOffice.org (et dans OOo4Kids et OOoLight bien sûr !).

À suivre ;-)

Liens utiles : L'annonce d'Armin sur la liste ooo-dev
Comment télécharger les sources d'Apache OpenOffice.org

Some news about Apache OpenOffice.org

Eric Bachard — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:49:00 +0200

Some news about Apache OpenOffice.org

Below, the mail sent by Mathias Bauer, on the dev@openoffice.org list (please spread the word)

".. Hi developers,

as you might have heard, the future development of OpenOffice.org will happen under the roof of the Apache Foundation(*).

Developers, some of the old folks as well as some new ones, are currently working on the code import from the OOo repository to the Apache repository. In parallel similar work is done for the Bugzilla content, the wiki, the web pages etc.

Currently OOo still is an "incubator" project and it will remain in that state until it fulfills all criteria for an accepted Apache project. One of the most important criteria is that all code that is used for a release is licensed under the Apache license or a compatible license. (OK, it is a little bit more complicated, but I think that you get the idea.) As soon as the code import to the Apache repository is done, we will work on that. Some parts of this work can be seen here: Apache Migration

Later on we will continue OOo development at Apache and as a part of that we will try to move over all the unfinished work of OOo from the last months. And of course we will try to finish the OOo3.4 release with a high priority.

Every developer is invited to join us, old hackers as well as new ones. Please join the ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org mailing list and help us to shape the next decade of OpenOffice.org development.

Regards,
Mathias

(*)
Wait a moment - do tipis have roofs? ;-)

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Version Française ( merci d'être gentils avec moi pour la traduction :-) :

".. Bonjour,

Comme vous en avez peut-être entendu parler, le développement futur d'OpenOffice.org se fera sous le toit de la Fondation Apache(*).

Les développeurs, quelques uns des anciens aussi bien que de quelques nouveaux, sont en ce moment en train de travailler activement sur le transfert du code d'OpenOffice.org vers le dépôt de la Fondation Apache. En parallèle, un travail similaire est fait pour le contenu d'IssueZilla, du wiki, des pages web etc.

Pour le moment, OOo est encore un projet dit "incubateur" et restera dans cet état jusqu'à ce que tous les critères d'un projet Apache soit validés. Un des critères les plus importants est que le code source utilisé pour produire OpenOffice.org soit sous licence Apache, sinon une licence compatible (OK, en fait, c'est un petit peu plus compliqué que cela, mais je pense que vous comprenez l'idée). Dès que le transfert du code vers le dépôt Apache sera terminé, nous travaillerons à cela. Une partie de l'évolution de ce travail est visible ici (en Anglais): Apache Migration

Plus tard, nous reprendrons le développement d'OpenOffice.org à la Fondation Apache, et une partie de notre tâche consistera à terminer le travail commencé avec OpenOffice.org ces derniers mois. Et bien entendu, nous allons essayer de produire OOo3.4 avec une haute priorité.

Chaque développeur intéressé est invité à nous rejoindre, les vieux hackers comme les jeunes. Merci de vous inscrire à la liste de discussion ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org (en anglais) afin que nous puissions définir la prochaine décade du développement d'OpenOffice.org and help us to shape the next decade of OpenOffice.org development.

Indication : pour s'inscrire, il faut envoyer un mail ooo-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org (puis confirmer ..etc)

Respectueusement,
Mathias

(*)
Attends un peu - est-ce que les tipis ont un toit ? ;-)

Fin de la traduction (libre) ;-)

Merci de faire suivre !!

Testing OOo4Kids 1.2 on Debian armhf port

Eric Bachard — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:21:00 +0200

That's OK : I did the full build, the .deb, and created the unofficial Debian repository.

Only en-us are available for the moment,

but it rocks :)

Note that you'll need to use the true Debian ARM Hard Float port (aka armhf port). Ubuntu Nathy won't work ...

Install OOo4Kids 1.2

Add :

deb http://deb.ooo4kids.org testing main

... in your /etc/apt/sources.list, then do, as root (or using su) :

apt-get update

And finaly do :

apt-get install ooo4kids-en-us # or ooo4kids-fr for french

If nothing went wrong, you should be done. Tested working well on Beagleboard, Pandaboard, and Smartbook EFIKA

Some other nice links around ARM

In French : blogarm.net

English : powerdeveloper.org (you'll find a pre-installed armhf image on this forum)

OOo4Kids wiki (ARM port)

Help us

The current version (1.2) is rock stable, but any feedback is appreciated. The most simple is to contact us directly on #ooo4Kids IRC channel on irc.freenode.net server.

Thanks !!

Install OOoLight on ARM for Ubuntu (formaly : armel architecture, currently Ubuntu Nathy)

Eric Bachard — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0200

Warning : armel architecture means armv7 instruction set (older machines are not able to run OOo4Kids nor OOoLight), and soft float ABI. The next blog entry will be about armhf on Debian using the fpu and true hard float ABI

OOoLight is a light (OpenOffice.org -40% in size, NO Java inside), provided under LGPL v3 License, based on OpenOffice.org source code. See this previous blog entry for further information.

IBM will reverse Symphony to Apache OpenOffice.org, under Apache License

Eric Bachard — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:15:00 +0200

A great step forward, one more who means Apache OpenOffice.org has a future.

Better than words, the content of Rob Weir mail.

"... I'm sending this with my IBM "hat".

I'm going to be speaking at the ODF Plugfest in Berlin Friday afternoon, and will be making some announcements. I wanted you to hear this first, before anyone else knows.

You know about IBM Lotus Symphony, our free (as in beer) product which is based on OOo. We're doing well with it, I think. Along with various numerous interop, performance enhancements and functional/bug fixes, we've done some significant work in the accessibility and user interface in general. If you saw recently, PC Magazine gave Symphony 3.0 its "Editors' Choice Award" [1]. In the review they praised the "interface that's been tweaked by IBM to make it by far the
user-friendliest no-cost productivity suite, and one's that's friendly enough to rival the spacious and informative interface that Microsoft created for Office 2010 and that Apple created for iWork '09." So the UI enhancements are getting some notice.

However, we at IBM have not been exemplary community members when it came to OpenOffice.org. This wasn't necessarily by design, but for various reasons, that was the effect. Yes, we participated in various community councils, and sponsored conferences and worked together on standards. But when it came down to the code, we maintained Symphony essentially as a fork, and although we occasionally contributed code back, we did not do this well, or often.

We'd like to make some changes in how we do things, and the fresh start at Apache is a good opportunity for this.

We will be doing the following:

First, we're going to contribute the standalone version of Lotus Symphony to the Apache OpenOffice.org project, under the Apache 2.0 license. We'll also work with project members to prioritize which pieces make sense to integrate into OpenOffice. For example, we've already done a lot of work with replacing GPL/LPGL dependencies. Using the Symphony code could help accelerate that work and get us to an AOOo release faster. We've already converted the help files to DITA, which could help accelerate that work, if we chose to go in that direction.

Aside from the work that would help accelerate getting AOOo to our first release, we've also added other features that I think we should consider merging in. For example, the IAccessible2 work which helps Symphony work better with assistive technology. I know an older version of this work sits in an OOo CWS someplace, but it will be easier to integrate that work if we start with our latest code. We've also added VBA macro support, which is great for MS Office interop.

Also, as the PC Magazine review notes, we've done some really good UI work. I invite you to download Symphony [2] and take a closer look at this. Yes, it is different from what OOo has today. And a move of that magnitude has an impact on documentation and translations as well. But the feedback we've received from customers and reviewers is very positive. Do we integrate parts of the Symphony UI? That is something for the project to discuss and decide on.

Finally, we will be proposing [3] a new incubation project at Apache, for the ODF Toolkit. These Java libraries enable new kinds of lightweight document processing applications. We think this would work well as an Apache project, and we look forward to moving that into incubation and developing that complementary project forward.

So that's essentially what I'll be announcing on Friday. The above contributions will occur over the next couple of months, starting with the ODF Toolkit. I hope you see the exciting possibilities as much as I do.

Regards,

-Rob

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387439,00.asp

[2] http://symphony.lotus.com/

[3] http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/ApacheProposal

..."

New stickers for EducOOo

Eric Bachard — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:41:00 +0200

Thanks to Ben Bois who created a great model of stickers :

What do you think ?

OOo4Kids 1.2 is out

Eric Bachard — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:48:00 +0200

Download me

Since ~10 days, the 1.2 version of OOo4Kids is out. Click this link to download OOo4Kids 1.2 for Windows (installable and portable), Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC) or Linux

Changes

New startcenter (thanks to Philipp Lohmann for his big help)
Change the user level directly, using the new menu entry View -> User Level Thanks to Ramtin Khoshniat and Julien Piret, from Ecole Commerciale et Industrielle d'Ecaussinnes for their work.
New cursor mode, for Impress annotation mode. Code provided by Benjamin Vialle and Clement Delafargue, from Ecole Centrale Nantes. Thanks to them !
New locales : Greek (thanks to Anas Drakopoulos), Danish (Thanks to Peter Leth for the translation), Russian and Ukrainian (thanks to Grygorij Gromko for both translations)
ARM optimisation (OMAP3, Freescale i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz), and genric armv6+ instruction set) Thanks to Simon Guinot and Fabien Rendu for their help.

Other changes : improved auto-correction (thanks to Loïc Breilloux), OpenBSD port (thanks to Robert Nagy), and many more ...!

For the complete changes list, since OOo4Kids 1.1, see the full changelog

Debian / Ubuntu version

.rpm are available, but for .deb, we now have our Debian (unofficial) repository :

Step 1 : add this line in your apt-sources.list :

deb http://deb.ooo4kids.org testing main

Step 2 : run apt-get update (as root, or using sudo)

Step 3 : install the localized version of your choice

e.g. for French version, simply run, as root : apt-get install ooo4kids-fr (for french version, but other are available, and you just have to replace fr by your locale). Available locales are : ar, da, de, es, el, en-us, fi, fr, it, nb, nl, pt, ru, sl, uk, zh-cn, zh-tw

IMPORTANT : take care to uninstall everything from the previous OOo4Kids. Install ooo4kids-$your_locale. e.g. apt-get install ooo4kids-fr

XO version

See this page. Thanks to Bastien Guerry

Meet us

IRC :

channel #ooo4Kids
server : irc.freenode.net

Our Wiki

Don't forget to donate ...

As you can see on our download site, we are close to 750, 000 downloads. The bad news is, people donated nothing since 10 days (maybe 50 euros, but not sure). Don't forget that provide you everything for free, is not free of charges, and we (e.g.) have to pay for the server ... and so on. Thanks in advance.

OOoLight Debian port

Eric Bachard — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:06:00 +0100

A (true) Debian port of OOoLight has been done. Thanks to Matthias Brunet, student à Epitech Paris, who started the work (I continued a bit since ...).
For the 64 bits port, 16 locales will be available very soon, and the last one is Danish. Thanks to Peter Leth for the translation.

Note: the 32bits will follow soon.

The current full list contains :

ooolight-ar
ooolight-da
ooolight-de
ooolight-en-us
ooolight-es
ooolight-fi
ooolight-fr
ooolight-it
ooolight-nb
ooolight-nl
ooolight-pt
ooolight-ru
ooolight-sl
ooolight-uk
ooolight-zh-cn
ooolight-zh-tw

=> If you want to test, and even if you want to help us, the process follows.

Step 1 : add this line in your apt-sources.list :

deb http://deb.ooolight.org testing main

Step 2 : run apt-get update (as root, or using sudo)

Step 3 : install the localized version of your choice

e.g. for French version, simply run, as root : apt-get install ooolight-fr

Next steps : provide languagepacks, split .. (propose your ideas ;)

Similar link (french) : install OOo4Kids with synaptic

Thanks for using OOoLight, and Have Fun !!

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Education Project on the wiki
EducOO.org blog (french)
OOo4Kids

Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo

Un peu de calme ...

Eric Bachard — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:26:00 +0100

Si vous ne reconnaissez pas mon profil LinkedIn, ce n'est pas grave, je suis juste en train de le killer progressivement ...

OOo4Kids 1.1 disponible au téléchargement !

Eric Bachard — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:15:00 +0100

French Version

EducOOo, Association ressource du Projet OpenOffice.org Education, est heureuse d'annoncer que la version 1.1 d'OOo4Kids est disponible au téléchargement (cliquez-moi).

Dans cette nouvelle version, nous nous sommes attachés à corriger les problèmes visuels ou autres qui nous ont été remontés, tout en améliorant la stabilité du logiciel.

Les changements entre les versions 1.0 et 1.1 sont détaillés sur notre wiki => ICI, et pour mémoire, la liste des changements entre la version 0.9.5 et la 1.0 est visible en suivant ce lien

Les changements les plus importants sont :

OOo4Kids 1.1 est maintenant disponible en Ukrainien

(version portable Windows) : corrigé le problème de chemin pour la sauvegarde
Corrigé le bug visuel dans le Centre de démarrage (surtout visible pour le Norvégien
Corrigé le bug visuel : umlaut manquant dans la version allemande, start center
Travaillé sur la diminution du code : près de 3 Mo supprimés
Modifié les options d'autocorrection par défaut (tout est maintenant décoché par défaut), afin d'éviter de géner les enfants;

Supprimé l'entrée de menu "Galaxy" dans la liste des jeux d'icones;
Supprimé l'entrée Insérer -> Vidéo dans Writer et Draw;

Corrigé les entrées malformées dans Personnaliser -> Ajouter -> Édition;
port d'OOo4Kids et OOoLight sur OpenBSD (bridge OK, compilation terminée, port officiel en cours)
(Impress) Changé pour une meilleure taille par défaut de la pointe du stylo en mode annotations (Impress)
L'avertissement concernant la transparence, lorqu'on imprime un document est maintenant désactivé par défaut
(Writer) Nouvelles icones plus explicites, pour les styles Gras, Souligné et Italique

Corrigé le bug dans la liste des polices (pb avec le premier nom, souvent erroné dans la liste).
(Aide, Italien) Corrigé une traduction erronée (Italien). Merci à Marina Latini pour le retour.
Le nombre max de lignes dans Calc est maintenant de 512 pour OOoLight et 256 pour OOo4Kids. Pour le nombre maxi de colonnes, il sera de 128 pour OOoLight et de 64 pour OOo4Kids.
(Draw) Ajouté : entrée pour gestion des macros (Python seulement) dans les menus de Draw
(Writer) Ajouté entrée de menu pour macros Python dans Writer
(Linux, Debian) OOo4Kids1.0-debian-menus et OOoLight1.0-debian-menu dépendent maintenant de [resp.] ooo4kids1.0-core01 ooolight1.0-core01, ce qui signifie, par exemple, que lorsqu'on désinstalle ooo4kids1.0-core01, OOo4Kids1.0-debian-menus est aussi supprimé.
(Impress) Corrigé le problème du "flash blanc" dans Impress entre deux diapositives.

Merci d'utiliser OOo4Kids, et amusez-vous bien !!

English Version

EducOOois proud to announce that OOo4Kids 1.1 is available for download (click me)

The changes between version 1.0 and 1.1 are available => on this link, and for memory the previous changes (between version 0.9.5 and 1.0 are available following this (french only) link

In this new version, we tried to fixed all the visual issues reported by the users, improving the stability of the software. Below, short list of the changes :

OOo4Kids 1.1 is now available in Ukrainian

(Portable OOo4Kids on Windows) : the path issue, when saving a new document, is now fixed;

Fixed the visual bug in the StartCenter (mostly visible in the Norwegian version);
Fixed the missing umlaut (German, StartCenter);
Decreased the archive size ( around 3 MB less, average value);
Modified default Autocorrection options (everything is now unchecked by default), to avoid bothering children;
Removed useless "Galaxy" menu entry from the list.

Fixed malformed entries in Tools -> Customize -> Addd -> Edition
OOo4Kids and OOoLight ported on OpenBSD (bridge OK, compilation complete, work on the official port in progress)
(Impress) Modified the default pen width for a better and more usefull value in annotations mode (Impress)
The warning about transparency, when printing, is now unchecked by default

(Writer, not en-US) New icons with a more relevant letter as mnemonic, for Bold, Underline, and and Italic;
Fixed the bug in the font list (wrong random first name in the list);
(Help, Italian) Fixed a bad and visible translation. Thanks to Marina Latini for the feedback;
The max of lines in Calc is now 512 for OOoLight and 256 for OOo4Kids. The max number of columns is now 128 for OOoLight and 64 for OOo4Kids;
(Draw) Added : new entry for Python (only) macros in Draw menus;
(Writer) Added Python menu entry in Writer too;
(Linux, Debian) OOo4Kids1.0-debian-menus and OOoLight1.0-debian-menu now depends on [resp.] ooo4kids1.0-core01 ooolight1.0-core01, what means, when deinstalling ooo4kids1.0-core01, OOo4Kids1.0-debian-menus is being deinstalled too.
(Impress) Fixed the "white flash" in Impress, between two slides.

Thanks for using OOo4Kids, and Have Fun !!

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OOo4Kids (and by suit OOoLight) ported on OpenBSD !!

Eric Bachard — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:36:00 +0200

OOo4Kids, and thus OOoLight (based on the same sources) builds and works on OpenBSD (i386) !!

Many thanks to Even De Boysson (nickname de-boy) student at Epitech Paris, and Robert Nagy (OpenBSD ).

Next step : improve the build (yet one or two hackish steps), and finalize the OpenBSD way of packaging (currently : installed version). Once avavilable, we'll propose an URL, to download the testing version (as pre-installed .tar.gz )+the instructions.

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EducOO.org blog (french)
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OOo4Kids in Ukrainian :)

Eric Bachard — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:53:00 +0200

Thanks to Grygorij Gromko (Ukraine) who localized OOo4Kids. I didn't test everything but at least, the StartCenter is ok :-)

The Next step will be to add other strings, improve the localization (based on the OpenOffice.org status, and provide all the existing versions (Mac, Windows, Portable Windows, Linux .deb .rpm- ) for the coming soon OOo4Kids 1.1 (see all recent changes since 1.0 in OOo4Kids changelog)

Of course, we'll provide testing versions to our friends from Ukraine, and fix details.

Below, a little screenshot for the record !

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Education Project on the wiki
EducOO.org blog (french)
OOo4Kids

Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo