On 24 June 2010 14:30, Thejaswi Puthraya <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) Is the sugar interface relevant even now? I find it really hard to use > and as hard (or easy) as to develop upon when compared with any other > toolkit. Almost of the same opinion . Sugar as an interface started before the advent of netbooks and was aimed at children using those small custom built laptops (hope I could call them that ) The hardware is undoubtedly revoultionary . I had a go at sugar and was really hard to use . I think its time we look at other projects . >It's true that I am not the intended audience for Sugar but > projects like K12LTSP, Edubuntu and Swecha have had a good impact in the > educational field. These projects have quite a lot of applications and most > importantly content. Some of the projects are : 1. KDE Education : A suite of applications for children . There are applications in the project for learning languages,mathematics and also include scientfic applications . As far as translation is concerned . The whole KDE suite in telugu needs 'LOVE' :) http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=te Well I take this opportunity to tell that Klettres which is the alphabet trainer is readily available in telugu . #apt-get install klettres will install the package . You can add languages as telugu wont be coming in default package( AFAIK) you can throw the feedback on me ( negative ones are very much welcome :) ) In other KDE Edu application I liked Step ( Physics) ,Kalgebra ( as the name says algebra ) and Marble ( globe . Yes our Andhra pradesh towns are visisble ) Here is the link for KDE edu http://edu.kde.org/ an apt-cache search for the same names would give the apps to your desktop . Have a go on them . 2 . Gcompris : Its another educational suite and is included in edubuntu . It IMHO is more intutive and is aimed at younger audiences . Translations of UI are in a bad state than imaged ( I was expecting it to match with gnome translations but looks like is missing and is kept in different folder http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gcompris/gcomprixogoo/po/te ) but the essential translations are in translation addons and voices . Imagine a kid hearing "a machine speak in telugu" Contribute at http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php?title=Developer%27s_corner#Translations 3. Very little known package is tux4kids. It has applications for drawing (tuxpaint),maths(tuxmath) and typing(tuxtyping) http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/ Finally here is something which should inspire :) http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Turning+Tux+Paint+into+Malayalam.-a0227092891 Some of the packages installation : #apt-get install gcompris gcompris-sound-hi Yes hindi sounds! #apt-get install tuxmath tuxtype tuxpaint tux4kids #apt-get install marble klettres kalgebra The above packages should be the same for other distros ( yum search and install for RH and fedora) Some of the debian specific packages : On topic ( :P) #apt-get install education-desktop-sugar and education-desktop-gnome - Debian Edu GNOME desktop applications education-desktop-kde - Debian Edu KDE desktop applications education-desktop-lxde - Debian Edu LXDE desktop applications education-desktop-other - Debian Edu non-GNOME- and non-KDE-specific desktop applications Regards, Pavithran
