Considering all of the people the laptop is aimed at, having an activity labelled as 'bible reading' does not exactly do OLPC any favours.
Now, speaking for myself only, I feel there are many more useful texts out there which would be more suitable to be in activity's name. 'The Origin of Species", for one... Victor Lazzarini ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morgan Collett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:31 PM Subject: Re: New bible reading activity > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> space on the laptops is limited. it's not a good idea to have lots of >> different readers to read different documents (and along the same lines, >> it's not a good idea to have different browser packages with different >> home pages, like the gmail activity) >> >> now if you do something unique with your document there may be a reason >> to >> have a seperate reader (and I have seen bible readers that did have such >> features) > > This is a port of existing software which has a specific format which > enables certain features, such as the ability to jump directly to a > particular book, chapter and verse. There are lots of versions > available in numerous languages in this format, and though this port > is rudimentary it has this feature. > > GnomeSword has features like reading different versions/translations > in parallel, commentaries, dictionaries, maps, etc which all integrate > into the same UI and display relevant info according to the current > chapter and verse reference. I'm sure a good number of these features > will be available in this port, with time. > > I'd consider that enough justification for a dedicated activity. > > Morgan > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
