Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (29 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonderful work, totally impressed with the layout.


Lars Vogdt wrote:
> Hi Kirill
>
> First: big thanks for your work! The new layout looks much clearer and
> better now!
>
>
> On Di 18 Nov 2008 23:41:02 CET Kirill Kirillov
> <kirill.kirillov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2. The list of dropped packages in comparison with old page (why?):
> > bc (Math)
>
> in the distro
>
> > calctool (Math)
>
> in the distro
>
> > fraqtive (Math)
>
> hm: need to be checked
>
> > dosbox (Emulator)
> > dosemu (Emulator)
>
> both in the distro
>
> > quanta (WebDevelopment)
>
> renamed
>
> > enigma (LogicGame)
> > kmahjongg (LogicGame)
> > kmines (LogicGame)
> > kpat (LogicGame)
> > kreversi (LogicGame)
>
> needs to be checked
>
> > lincity-ng (Simulation)
>
> maintained in the games repository, but should end up in our add-on
> repo/media.
>
> > anagramarama (Languages)
>
> broken since 10.3 - and obsoleted at least by khangman
>
> > rekall (DBMS)
> > kile (Publishing)
> > scribus (Publishing)
> > audacity (AudioVideoEditing)
> > FreqTweak (AudioVideoEditing)
>
> in the distro
>
> > Stopmotion (AudioVideoEditing)
>
> needs to be checked
>
> > dia (FlowChart)
> > xFig (FlowChart)
> > kolorpaint (2DGraphics)
> > GIMP (2DGraphics)
> > Inkscape (2DGraphics)
> > Skencil (2DGraphics)
> > blender (3DGraphics)
>
> in the distro
>
> > GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
>
> in the geograhy repository - but has many dependencies which just can
> be fullfilled with including nearly all packages from this repository.
> Needs to be rechecked.
>
>
> > TaskJuggler (project management tool)
> > PythonCAD (Engineering)
>
> in the distro
>
> Note: packages which are already in the distribution (and even if they
> are just available via FTP) are not longer linked/aggregated into the
> Education buildservice repository - as this will increase the needed
> space and cost of build power without real benefits.
> BUT:
> + the packages should be listed as they are really useful
> + packages missing on the official download DVDs (and therefore just
> available via FTP) should end on our add-on media to avoid that people
> need an online connection to install our recommended software. That's
> already the case for our 11.0 (and if I'm correct even 10.3) add-on.
>
>
> > 3. The list of packages to define their categories in new page:
> > KLogic
>
> "Electronic" ?
>
> > iTalc
> > kiosktool
> > kde-kids-theme
> > sabayon
>
> "System or System-Management" ?
>
> > childplay
>
> "General Learning"
>
> > eXelearning
>
> HTML-Editors or Web-Publishing
>
> > gcompris
>
> "General Learning"
>
>
> > GRAMPS
>
> Hu? ;-)
>
> > KDissert
> > KSociograma
> > vym
> > semantik
>
> "Mind regulators" ;-)
> KDissert, semantik and vym are Mind Mapping Tools, Ksociograma is a
> tool for social networking. Perhaps the first three fit more into the
> "Office" Category? The last one...??? Psychology?
>
>
> > Any comments about new wiki page concept are welcome.
> > 1. Program name is the same as package name
> > 2. Level one categories are from RPM GROUPS (for easy installing)
> > 3. Level two categories are from
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html
> > (for easy and consistent browsing and finding installed application)
> >
> >
> > Also, good icons representing ages are needed to support visual age
> > differentiation.
>
> On my way... ...if krish isn't faster ;-)
>
>
> > And the last, should wiki page include educational-related software from
> > the official repo and if so, how to differ them?
>
> Yes, it should include it. And we should take care, that these
> packages are also listed in our patterns.
> Perhaps we can add the official openSUSE logo behind packages, which
> are already in the official repository?

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James Tremblay
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