Hello, Here are the weekly news!
Cheers, JM. Team ==== * We welcomed 3 new contributors for Dutch on TransiFex: FrenchR, Wamukota and ann1981. * One or two new contributors is/are expected for Chinese, I'm still waiting a first contact. Translations ============ * I received fresh PO files for Dutch (Denis, Wamukota, FrenchR), Russian (TSPU) and Chinese (Benheng, Nagiosfree). * New PO files for Gamine and Vkeybd have been created. New resources are on TransiFex. CDROM ===== * Benheng tested the first Chinese build and the second build which is now available on the dailybuild section (http://download.doudoulinux.org/dailybuild/). We will publish the first official Chinese CD for the (Chinese) new year, on the 3rd February. * Richard asked how to remove sessions in the session menu, the answer is on our blog (see http://blog.doudoulinux.org/post/2011/01/19/Changing-the-session-menu). He'd also like to be able to change sound volume when Mini and Whole DDL sessions are removed. A ticket is open for this issue (see https://gna.org/bugs/?17551) and another one for a nice interface to set the session menu (see https://gna.org/task/index.php?7300). * The bug concerning LiveUSB-write in the Russian version was not fixed (see https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?17360). I figured out how to have directives to tell PO editors check occurrences of strings like “%s” in translations. Don't know how Transifex deals with it. * The bug concerning doudou-installer is still on the way (see https://gna.org/bugs/?17374). * Finally the latest Gamine version is working on Debian Lenny (and thus on DDL), the issue was due to Compiz, not Gamine; Compiz is not part of DDL. Improvements of this new version: localization, keyboard keys output the corresponding letter, mouse pointer is replaced with a nice pen. However there is a remaining bug that occurs in DDL only. A fix from upstream is available. * Discussions are going on concerning the pedagogic recommendations from TSPU (see https://gna.org/task/?7289). Thanks to the coming tool to set the session menu, we'll be able to provide additional or remove some sessions from the menu and let users choose. * Sergey tested Lili without success. I understood that some Chinese people also had troubles with this kind of tool… It seems that Pendrive Linux is working (see http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/). Website ======= * The FAQ English pages has been updated. * Yago translated a new page into Spanish. * TSPU corrected several pages. * I'm looking at making a private section of pages. Only Spip users would access it. Communication ============= * I came across a Spanish variant of Tolga's article “6 Linux distros for kids” (see http://clinuxera.org/odaibanet/6-distribuciones-de-linux-para-ninos/). * Riccardo published a new article about 2 kid's distros, one being DDL of course (see http://hubpages.com/hub/Linux-for-your-kids-part-2). * We have an article on Windows 7 Forums :p, 50,000 visitors/day (see http://windows7forums.com/linux/57144-doudoulinux-linux-distribution-especially-designed-kids.html). * Our Alexa rank (site popularity) is now around 900,000 among an estimated number of 80,000,000 of active websites on the Internet. * A French director of a school for children from 3 to 6 (école maternelle) recommends 2 distros for use in schools: DoudouLinux and ASRI (see http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/01/17/Promouvoir-le-logiciel-libre-des-la-maternelle). He says: “Il existe des packs logiciels […] très bien conçus, et utilisables dès la maternelle à l’école ou à la maison.” Translation: “There are software pakages […] very well designed, and usable as soon as nursery school or at home.” Support ======= * I reviewed some old tickets. I need some of you to check whether they're still relevant or should be closed: - Help file typos, errors and glitches (https://gna.org/bugs/?16925) - Persistence mode achieved only from wizard (https://gna.org/bugs/?16952) - Configuration de l'imprimante missed Russian commands (https://gna.org/bugs/?17012) - ChildsPlay crash the system (https://gna.org/bugs/?17027) * We received a new request for assistance: having an azerty keyboard with DDL English, which defaults to qwerty… We need a tool to set keyboard layout! _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
