Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-19 Thread jonathon
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On 17/02/15 22:26, jan i wrote:

 Do we (AOO) have to solve that, or is it the project (being downstream to 
 AOO) ?
 To me it sounds like a downstream adaptation.

If the point is to remove _existing_ functionality, then it is a
downstream adaption.

If the point is to make it appear as if functionality has been removed,
then an extension that changes/rewrites the main menu line will suffice.
Rephrasing, if an extension can currently be written, than changes the
content of the File | Edit | Insert | etc line, then a third party can
write that extension today.

jonathon

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RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
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From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 14:27
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org
Subject: Re: OOo4Kids  OOoLight Status

On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org
wrote:

 +1,

 Nice thinking, Guy.

 Perhaps a bit more work and resource to make this customizable, and a
 great idea.  This also matters for enterprise deployments and such.  That,
 along with customized template sets can be very important in certain areas
 of application.

 We still have the original resource problem to solve, yet it is nice to
 see thoughtful definition taking place.

Do we (AOO) have to solve that, or is it the project (being downstream to
AOO) ?

To me it sounds like a downstream adaptation.

orcmid
   I confess I was thinking of customizations as something that could be 
   added without having to rebuild the code.  That would require
   building-in of a technique for customization.  The starter and 
   intermediates might well be introduced in that manner, though part
   of the default build.  
 I suppose that means creation of an extension point unless it is
   practical to skin the product using the existing extension machinery.
 I also suppose that there has to be versioning of an extension point
   and concerns for future distributions breaking existing customizations.
/orcmid

rgds
jan i

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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jan,
Hi all,

2015-02-16 10:26 GMT+01:00 jan i j...@apache.org:


 In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know
 - is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand
 - can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive

 I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not currently see a
 possibility to add this to the AOO project.


Hi Jan,
Hi all,

Many thanks for the proposition. But I think (personal opinion, I don't
speak for educoo) that it would be a waste of ressources, as we don't
actually have the needed dev capacity to assist in such a process. For me,
the best way is to maintain the availability of OOoLight and OOo4Kids (they
are always usable), but the users should be informed (for transparency
purpose) that their developpement is currently discontinued due to a lack
of developers.

Regarding a possible personalization of the UI of AOO to fit it better for
Kids or users with low needs, here are some thoughts. Please, consider that
it is not a request but only some thoughts to enhance the use of profiles
and get again more flexibility to AOO. All this can perfectly be managed
manually.

Reading the posts of jonathon and Dennis, perhaps a possible way :

Command : Tools  Options  Appearance  Select UI-Profile ... opens the
Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles.

Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles
Lists the existing profiles from the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory
(Windows example) and allows to activate, delete or export one of them or
allows to add a new one.
Button Add a new Profile ... : opens the dialogbox Add a new Profile to
add a new Profile to the list.
Button Activate profile :
- renames the actual activ profile user and restores its original name.
- renames the choosen profile as user and stores its original name in a
memory.
- restarts AOO with the choosen profile.
Button Cancel to quit.
Button Delete : to suppress a selected profile after advertisement (Do
you really want to suppress the sected profile ?).
Button Export : creates a zip archive of the selected profile in the list
to can save and share it with other users, or send a corrupt profile for
expertise.
Button Help : displays an information text about what is a profile and
what is stored in it. It's not so clear for most users (me included). An
opportunity to clarify definitely this question.

Dialogbox Add a new UI Profile
Allows to install a new Profile in the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory
- Button Browse near an editing zone to search the new Profile (.zip
file) to install.
- Button OK : unzip the choosen .zip file and installs the resultant
directory to the  AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory. Returns to the
dialogbox Available UI-Profiles and actualizes the list.
- Button Cancel to quit and return to the dialogbox Available
UI-Profiles without modifications.

Possible interests :
- more flexibility with a single product. No reduction of size, but most
computers currently support AOO without any problem.
- adaptable UI in a school context or for users with low needs.
- for advanced users, possibility to create more sophisticated profiles
(integrating sets of special templates or galleries, etc. ) for specific
purposes (i.e. lawyers, translators, specific technical needs),  and
shareable with other colleagues.

Some questions about that :
- Interest or not, from a marketing point of view, for instance?
- Feasability : easy or not easy task ? Cost of ressources acceptable or
not ?Unreachable objectiv ?
- Implementation directly in the AOO code obligatory or possible
installation through an  extension ChangeProfile ?
- Standard profiles could be created inside the users mailing list, after
discussion, to select the commands to integrate by default in the the
different standard levels. Certainly not a trivial work to select the
commands. After that, an advanced user can always refine the standard
profiles or replace them with its own personal profiles.

Thank you to have read this piece of bad English up to the end ;-)

Regards
-- 
gw


RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1,

Nice thinking, Guy.

Perhaps a bit more work and resource to make this customizable, and a great 
idea.  This also matters for enterprise deployments and such.  That, along with 
customized template sets can be very important in certain areas of application.

We still have the original resource problem to solve, yet it is nice to see 
thoughtful definition taking place.

 - Dennis

-Original Message-
From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 13:00
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: OOo4Kids  OOoLight Status

Hi Jan,
Hi all,

2015-02-16 10:26 GMT+01:00 jan i j...@apache.org:


 In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know
 - is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand
 - can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive

 I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not currently see a
 possibility to add this to the AOO project.


Hi Jan,
Hi all,

Many thanks for the proposition. But I think (personal opinion, I don't
speak for educoo) that it would be a waste of ressources, as we don't
actually have the needed dev capacity to assist in such a process. For me,
the best way is to maintain the availability of OOoLight and OOo4Kids (they
are always usable), but the users should be informed (for transparency
purpose) that their developpement is currently discontinued due to a lack
of developers.

Regarding a possible personalization of the UI of AOO to fit it better for
Kids or users with low needs, here are some thoughts. Please, consider that
it is not a request but only some thoughts to enhance the use of profiles
and get again more flexibility to AOO. All this can perfectly be managed
manually.

Reading the posts of jonathon and Dennis, perhaps a possible way :

Command : Tools  Options  Appearance  Select UI-Profile ... opens the
Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles.

Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles
Lists the existing profiles from the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory
(Windows example) and allows to activate, delete or export one of them or
allows to add a new one.
Button Add a new Profile ... : opens the dialogbox Add a new Profile to
add a new Profile to the list.
Button Activate profile :
- renames the actual activ profile user and restores its original name.
- renames the choosen profile as user and stores its original name in a
memory.
- restarts AOO with the choosen profile.
Button Cancel to quit.
Button Delete : to suppress a selected profile after advertisement (Do
you really want to suppress the sected profile ?).
Button Export : creates a zip archive of the selected profile in the list
to can save and share it with other users, or send a corrupt profile for
expertise.
Button Help : displays an information text about what is a profile and
what is stored in it. It's not so clear for most users (me included). An
opportunity to clarify definitely this question.

Dialogbox Add a new UI Profile
Allows to install a new Profile in the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory
- Button Browse near an editing zone to search the new Profile (.zip
file) to install.
- Button OK : unzip the choosen .zip file and installs the resultant
directory to the  AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory. Returns to the
dialogbox Available UI-Profiles and actualizes the list.
- Button Cancel to quit and return to the dialogbox Available
UI-Profiles without modifications.

Possible interests :
- more flexibility with a single product. No reduction of size, but most
computers currently support AOO without any problem.
- adaptable UI in a school context or for users with low needs.
- for advanced users, possibility to create more sophisticated profiles
(integrating sets of special templates or galleries, etc. ) for specific
purposes (i.e. lawyers, translators, specific technical needs),  and
shareable with other colleagues.

Some questions about that :
- Interest or not, from a marketing point of view, for instance?
- Feasability : easy or not easy task ? Cost of ressources acceptable or
not ?Unreachable objectiv ?
- Implementation directly in the AOO code obligatory or possible
installation through an  extension ChangeProfile ?
- Standard profiles could be created inside the users mailing list, after
discussion, to select the commands to integrate by default in the the
different standard levels. Certainly not a trivial work to select the
commands. After that, an advanced user can always refine the standard
profiles or replace them with its own personal profiles.

Thank you to have read this piece of bad English up to the end ;-)

Regards
-- 
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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread jan i
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org
wrote:

 +1,

 Nice thinking, Guy.

 Perhaps a bit more work and resource to make this customizable, and a
 great idea.  This also matters for enterprise deployments and such.  That,
 along with customized template sets can be very important in certain areas
 of application.

 We still have the original resource problem to solve, yet it is nice to
 see thoughtful definition taking place.

Do we (AOO) have to solve that, or is it the project (being downstream to
AOO) ?

To me it sounds like a downstream adaptation.

rgds
jan i


  - Dennis

 -Original Message-
 From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com javascript:;]
 Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 13:00
 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org javascript:;
 Subject: Re: OOo4Kids  OOoLight Status

 Hi Jan,
 Hi all,

 2015-02-16 10:26 GMT+01:00 jan i j...@apache.org javascript:;:

 
  In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know
  - is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand
  - can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive
 
  I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not currently see a
  possibility to add this to the AOO project.
 

 Hi Jan,
 Hi all,

 Many thanks for the proposition. But I think (personal opinion, I don't
 speak for educoo) that it would be a waste of ressources, as we don't
 actually have the needed dev capacity to assist in such a process. For me,
 the best way is to maintain the availability of OOoLight and OOo4Kids (they
 are always usable), but the users should be informed (for transparency
 purpose) that their developpement is currently discontinued due to a lack
 of developers.

 Regarding a possible personalization of the UI of AOO to fit it better for
 Kids or users with low needs, here are some thoughts. Please, consider that
 it is not a request but only some thoughts to enhance the use of profiles
 and get again more flexibility to AOO. All this can perfectly be managed
 manually.

 Reading the posts of jonathon and Dennis, perhaps a possible way :

 Command : Tools  Options  Appearance  Select UI-Profile ... opens the
 Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles.

 Dialogbox Available UI-Profiles
 Lists the existing profiles from the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory
 (Windows example) and allows to activate, delete or export one of them or
 allows to add a new one.
 Button Add a new Profile ... : opens the dialogbox Add a new Profile to
 add a new Profile to the list.
 Button Activate profile :
 - renames the actual activ profile user and restores its original name.
 - renames the choosen profile as user and stores its original name in a
 memory.
 - restarts AOO with the choosen profile.
 Button Cancel to quit.
 Button Delete : to suppress a selected profile after advertisement (Do
 you really want to suppress the sected profile ?).
 Button Export : creates a zip archive of the selected profile in the list
 to can save and share it with other users, or send a corrupt profile for
 expertise.
 Button Help : displays an information text about what is a profile and
 what is stored in it. It's not so clear for most users (me included). An
 opportunity to clarify definitely this question.

 Dialogbox Add a new UI Profile
 Allows to install a new Profile in the AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\
 directory
 - Button Browse near an editing zone to search the new Profile (.zip
 file) to install.
 - Button OK : unzip the choosen .zip file and installs the resultant
 directory to the  AOO_4.1\User\OpenOffice4\ directory. Returns to the
 dialogbox Available UI-Profiles and actualizes the list.
 - Button Cancel to quit and return to the dialogbox Available
 UI-Profiles without modifications.

 Possible interests :
 - more flexibility with a single product. No reduction of size, but most
 computers currently support AOO without any problem.
 - adaptable UI in a school context or for users with low needs.
 - for advanced users, possibility to create more sophisticated profiles
 (integrating sets of special templates or galleries, etc. ) for specific
 purposes (i.e. lawyers, translators, specific technical needs),  and
 shareable with other colleagues.

 Some questions about that :
 - Interest or not, from a marketing point of view, for instance?
 - Feasability : easy or not easy task ? Cost of ressources acceptable or
 not ?Unreachable objectiv ?
 - Implementation directly in the AOO code obligatory or possible
 installation through an  extension ChangeProfile ?
 - Standard profiles could be created inside the users mailing list, after
 discussion, to select the commands to integrate by default in the the
 different standard levels. Certainly not a trivial work to select the
 commands. After that, an advanced user can always refine the standard
 profiles or replace them with its own personal profiles.

 Thank you to have read this piece of bad English up to the end ;-)

 Regards
 --
 gw

RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I recommend something more neutral such as Starter, Intermediate, and Full or 
some equivalent, so it is about the interface, not the user of it.  The default 
on an install could be Starter in the absence of an existing user configuration.

Should we consider having the skins simply be options on a single binary, 
especially since they should all be able to consume the same ODF files?  This 
should mean that the same localizations would work and be done once for a 
release.  The help system might be specialized based on the skin selection, but 
that is an isolatable provision.  There would also be no explosion in the 
builds and problems of users having to choose among them.

I am assuming there would be no dramatic difference in the chrome so the move 
among levels is not startling in terms of appearance, but more in availability 
of menus, sidebars, some dialogs, etc.

And, of course, this is yet one more interesting area where we would have to 
find developers that are equipped and available to work on something like this.

 - Dennis

THINKING OUT LOUD

[To help with interchange, the configuration file could be used to signal which 
level was used to produce a document, so that the consumer has some idea what 
might be needed to edit all of its features.  Having this be smooth in all 
directions takes some more thought.]

My limited sense of OOo4Kids is that it is not just the build of OpenOffice but 
the packaging of extensions and other aids that matters.  

The downside of a single distribution is that it does not become smaller than 
the current one.  I don't know if that matters for an OOo4Kids clone or not.

  OT: This is a problem that Microsoft Office has attempted to address in a 
variety of ways over the years.  The idea is not to confront new users and the 
very occasional users with a plethora of choices and complex menus.  One 
attempt involved progressive disclosure of additional options and choices based 
on what an *individual* user tended to use, so it was personalized and dynamic. 
 Like it or not, the ribbon was the replacement for all that.  One useful 
feature about the ribbon is that it can be collapsed and almost all of the 
application window used for the document being worked on.  The context 
(right-click) menu provides a variety of immediate actions depending on where 
the cursor is and the ribbon can be recalled when needed.  And there are 
substantial provisions for customization, including simple tuning by users who 
put features they use often on a quick-start bar next to the window title.  I 
put a sample screen capture about this at 
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126098#c9.



-Original Message-
From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 01:26
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: OOo4Kids  OOoLight Status

On Monday, February 16, 2015, RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de
wrote:

 On 15.02.2015 23:14, Guy Waterval wrote:


 
  You could reduce the number of options here. For instance OOoLight is not
  necessary. The differences with OOo4Kids are too small.
  Novice, Intermediate and Advanced (AOO without modifications) should be
  enough (personal opinion).
 
 IMO the brand (OOoLight) should be kept and a special skin, so adults
 need not to use a kiddy skin, if they want to use a lighter office suit.


In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know
- is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand
- can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive

I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not currently see a
possibility to add this to the AOO project.

rgds
jan i


 But this may not be important.

 Regards
 Michael



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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-16 Thread jan i
On Monday, February 16, 2015, RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de
wrote:

 On 15.02.2015 23:14, Guy Waterval wrote:


 
  You could reduce the number of options here. For instance OOoLight is not
  necessary. The differences with OOo4Kids are too small.
  Novice, Intermediate and Advanced (AOO without modifications) should be
  enough (personal opinion).
 
 IMO the brand (OOoLight) should be kept and a special skin, so adults
 need not to use a kiddy skin, if they want to use a lighter office suit.


In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know
- is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand
- can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive

I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not currently see a
possibility to add this to the AOO project.

rgds
jan i


 But this may not be important.

 Regards
 Michael



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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-16 Thread RA Stehmann
On 15.02.2015 23:14, Guy Waterval wrote:


 
 You could reduce the number of options here. For instance OOoLight is not
 necessary. The differences with OOo4Kids are too small.
 Novice, Intermediate and Advanced (AOO without modifications) should be
 enough (personal opinion).
 
IMO the brand (OOoLight) should be kept and a special skin, so adults
need not to use a kiddy skin, if they want to use a lighter office suit.

But this may not be important.

Regards
Michael



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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello,


2015-02-14 23:36 GMT+01:00 jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com:

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 That would require one addition to the Tools Options Appearance
 Select UI-Profile, and offer:
 * Prebuilt;
 * Default;
 * Custom;


That's exactly what we have discussed by Educoo, but not so sophisticated :
only 3 levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Expert. I already have addressed
this issue on this list in the past, but I didn't get an answer. I have
also tried to test a possible interest by EuroOffice, but also without
result. My conclusion is that it could be not so easy to  implement or not
possible via an extension.


 Clicking on Prebuilt has the following options:
 * Ooo4Kids;
 * OOoLight;
 * Novice;
 * Basic;
 * Intermediate;
 * Advanced;
 * Default;


You could reduce the number of options here. For instance OOoLight is not
necessary. The differences with OOo4Kids are too small.
Novice, Intermediate and Advanced (AOO without modifications) should be
enough (personal opinion).


 Clicking on Custom has the following options:
 * Custom1;
 * Custom2;
 * Custom3;
 * Custom4;
 * Custom5;
 * Custom6;
 * Custom7;


 Custom1, Custom2, .. Custom7, would be created by users, not the
 project. The major use-case I see for the Custom# profiles, is an
 office restricting/granting users access to specific parts of AOo.

 In theory, and maybe in practice, people will wrap their Custom# as an
 extension, for distribution to third parties.


Custom is a nice idea for people working in specific  areas, for instance
chemists, physicians, translators, etc.


  not the perfect way but it has the merit to be realizable without any
 modification of the code.

 In one sense, both OOo4Kids and OOoLight were nothing more than
 sophisticated skins. Yes, they did gut some of the innards of OOo, but
 that gutting would have had minimal impact on _most_ users.


 OOo4Kids and OOoLight were not just limited to that. There was also the
independence from Java, the decoupling of the base module, the list of Calc
functions adapted to different levels, etc. These changes will not be
possible by a profile mechanism, but this method should be an acceptable
workaround  to adjust AOO to different user levels or needs.

Regards
-- 
gw


Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea,
Hi all,

2015-02-13 20:51 GMT+01:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org:

 On 13/02/2015 jonathon wrote:

 Were these projects (OOo4Kids, OooLight) included, when OOo became an
 Apache project?


 No. But as several people pointed out, they have always been independent
 projects. Eric's messages to this list cover pretty much all discussions we
 had about them:
 http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.
 ooo-dev+from%3A%22eric+b%22

 (note that discussions referring to OOo4Kids being included do not refer
 to the source code; they refer to it being listed in the
 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ header for support).

  If so, have they since been abandoned?


 No idea, but they are managed independently of the Apache OpenOffice
 project.


The developpement is curruntly stopped due to a lack of coders, Marie B.
being our latest capacity for the code. The actual tendency is to restrict
the activity to the production of ressources for OpenOffice in the form of
extensions. I forward this message to the CA mailing list of Educoo.

Regards
-- 
gw





Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Michael,
Hi all,

2015-02-13 9:42 GMT+01:00 RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de:

 On 13.02.2015 09:05, jan i wrote:

 
 
  I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best
 guess
  is that they were forgotten, but others might know more.
 

 I think, that both products are derived works from OpenOffice.org.


Exactly.


 Maybe the people, who developed both projects, have not all signed a
 copyright assignment contract with SUN or Oracle.


I think so.


 [...]

 OOo4Kids is a fine product and can be important for the success of Free
 Software.


 Yes, but perhaps that the maintaining of OOoKids could also disperse the
forces instead of concentrate the effort on AOO. Specific functions for the
school can be provided as extensions, as our member Mary B. already does,
with her PicoSvox extension, for instance . So, I wonder if it couldn't be
more easy to  simplify the interface of AOO and adapt it for the school, as
OOo4Kids did, but avoiding to maintain two separated products, acting
directly on AOO.
A possible but limited way to reach such an objectiv is to create specific
AOO profiles  adapted for different categories of students. It's perhaps
not the perfect way but it has the merit to be realizable without any
modification of the code. Perhaps other more sophisticated solutions are
also possible, but I'm not a coder.

Regards
-- 
gw





Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-14 Thread jonathon
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On 14/02/15 19:47, Guy Waterval wrote:

 more easy to simplify the interface of AOO and adapt it for the school

For both OOoLight and OOo4Kids, if a function was accessible using
keystrokes in OOo, it was accessible in those products. However, if the
function required mouse-clicks in OOo, then it was not available in
either OOo4Kids or OOoLight.

 A possible but limited way to reach such an objective is to create specific 
 AOO profiles

That would require one addition to the Tools Options Appearance
Select UI-Profile, and offer:
* Prebuilt;
* Default;
* Custom;

Clicking on Prebuilt has the following options:
* Ooo4Kids;
* OOoLight;
* Novice;
* Basic;
* Intermediate;
* Advanced;
* Default;

Clicking on Custom has the following options:
* Custom1;
* Custom2;
* Custom3;
* Custom4;
* Custom5;
* Custom6;
* Custom7;


Custom1, Custom2, .. Custom7, would be created by users, not the
project. The major use-case I see for the Custom# profiles, is an
office restricting/granting users access to specific parts of AOo.

In theory, and maybe in practice, people will wrap their Custom# as an
extension, for distribution to third parties.

 not the perfect way but it has the merit to be realizable without any 
 modification of the code.

In one sense, both OOo4Kids and OOoLight were nothing more than
sophisticated skins. Yes, they did gut some of the innards of OOo, but
that gutting would have had minimal impact on _most_ users.



FWIW, I'd rather see all of the built-in functionality and capability
available as a set of keystroke commands. A superset of The WordStar
Command Set.
Literally anything that can currently be done by using mouse-clicks,
should be doable by using just keystrokes.

jonathon
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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread jan i
On 13 February 2015 at 08:58, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote:

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 All:

 My impression was that when Apache Foundation accepted OOo, they also
 accepted the OOo4Kids and OOoLight projects.

 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/OOo4Kids says that
 the OOo4Kids has been depreciated, and points to
 http://educoo.org/OOo4Kids.php as the main page.

 As far as OOoLight goes, the only hit on the Apache Wiki is

 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8:_%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE
 ,
 which is a description of things that can be removed from OOo, to
 improve performance/reduce the CPU/memory requirements.

 OOo4Kids 1.3 can be downloaded from
 http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOo4Kids.php, and is licenced under the
 LGPL 3.0.

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/ lists December 2013 as the date
 of OOo4Kids 1.3.1, as the most recent release.

 OOoLight 1.1 can be downloaded from
 http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOoLight.php.

 OOoLight_1.1_120609_LinuxIntel_install_rpm.tar.gz is listed at
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/files/OOoLight/Linux/1.1/en-US/
 with a modification date of 2013-12-30. The sourceforge site implies
 that it is LGPL 3.0.

 Were these projects (OOo4Kids, OooLight) included, when OOo became an
 Apache project?
 If so, have they since been abandoned?


I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best guess
is that they were forgotten, but others might know more.

rgds
jan i


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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread RA Stehmann
On 13.02.2015 09:05, jan i wrote:

 
 
 I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best guess
 is that they were forgotten, but others might know more.
 

I think, that both products are derived works from OpenOffice.org.

Maybe the people, who developed both projects, have not all signed a
copyright assignment contract with SUN or Oracle.

So we have to aware some legal problems.

We should find out first, who are the developers of these products and
how we can contact them.

OOo4Kids is a fine product and can be important for the success of Free
Software.

Kind regards
Michael







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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread FR web forum

who are the developers of these products and
how we can contact them.
See Eric Bachard
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Ericb

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RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My recollection is that OOo4Kids was intended to remain downstream and under 
LGPL in any case.  

The OOo4Kids developer participated on the AOO Podling.  There was a 
complicated disagreement (not about licensing and more about AOO's 
unwillingness to arbitrate a conflict between third parties) that had the 
developer bolt from AOO.

Please do not trust my recollection.  It is better to see what is on the AOO 
dev archive back in 2011-2012.

 - Dennis

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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 00:43
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: OOo4Kids  OOoLight Status

On 13.02.2015 09:05, jan i wrote:

 
 
 I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best guess
 is that they were forgotten, but others might know more.
 

I think, that both products are derived works from OpenOffice.org.

Maybe the people, who developed both projects, have not all signed a
copyright assignment contract with SUN or Oracle.

So we have to aware some legal problems.

We should find out first, who are the developers of these products and
how we can contact them.

OOo4Kids is a fine product and can be important for the success of Free
Software.

Kind regards
Michael







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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread jonathon
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On 13/02/15 08:05, jan i wrote:

so my best guess is that they were forgotten, 

That would be forgotten by developers.

The current Trinidad and Tobago DVD contains OOo4Kids.

jonathon
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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread Dave Barton
jan i wrote:
 On 13 February 2015 at 08:58, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 All:
 
 My impression was that when Apache Foundation accepted OOo, they also
 accepted the OOo4Kids and OOoLight projects.
 
 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/OOo4Kids says that
 the OOo4Kids has been depreciated, and points to
 http://educoo.org/OOo4Kids.php as the main page.
 
 As far as OOoLight goes, the only hit on the Apache Wiki is
 
 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8:_%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE
 ,
 which is a description of things that can be removed from OOo, to
 improve performance/reduce the CPU/memory requirements.
 
 OOo4Kids 1.3 can be downloaded from
 http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOo4Kids.php, and is licenced under the
 LGPL 3.0.
 
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/ lists December 2013 as the date
 of OOo4Kids 1.3.1, as the most recent release.
 
 OOoLight 1.1 can be downloaded from
 http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOoLight.php.
 
 OOoLight_1.1_120609_LinuxIntel_install_rpm.tar.gz is listed at
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/files/OOoLight/Linux/1.1/en-US/
 with a modification date of 2013-12-30. The sourceforge site implies
 that it is LGPL 3.0.
 
 Were these projects (OOo4Kids, OooLight) included, when OOo became an
 Apache project?
 If so, have they since been abandoned?
 
 
 I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best guess
 is that they were forgotten, but others might know more.
 
 rgds
 jan i
 
 
 jonathon

These were independent projects forked from OOo. They were not part of
the original IP clearance, because Sun/Oracle never owned them.

Dave


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Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread Yakov Reztsov



Пятница, 13 февраля 2015, 7:58 UTC от jonathon t:
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My impression was that when Apache Foundation accepted OOo, they also
accepted the OOo4Kids and OOoLight projects.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/OOo4Kids says that
the OOo4Kids has been depreciated, and points to
http://educoo.org/OOo4Kids.php as the main page.

As far as OOoLight goes, the only hit on the Apache Wiki is
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8:_%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%BE
 ,
which is a description of things that can be removed from OOo, to
improve performance/reduce the CPU/memory requirements.

OOo4Kids 1.3 can be downloaded from
http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOo4Kids.php , and is licenced under the
LGPL 3.0.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/ lists December 2013 as the date
of OOo4Kids 1.3.1, as the most recent release.

OOoLight 1.1 can be downloaded from
http://educoo.org/TelechargerOOoLight.php .

OOoLight_1.1_120609_LinuxIntel_install_rpm.tar.gz is listed at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/educooo/files/OOoLight/Linux/1.1/en-US/
with a modification date of 2013-12-30. The sourceforge site implies
that it is LGPL 3.0.



This versions are based on  OpenOffice.org 3.2
-- 

Yakov Reztsov


Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 13/02/2015 jonathon wrote:

Were these projects (OOo4Kids, OooLight) included, when OOo became an
Apache project?


No. But as several people pointed out, they have always been independent 
projects. Eric's messages to this list cover pretty much all discussions 
we had about them:

http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+from%3A%22eric+b%22

(note that discussions referring to OOo4Kids being included do not 
refer to the source code; they refer to it being listed in the 
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ header for support).



If so, have they since been abandoned?


No idea, but they are managed independently of the Apache OpenOffice 
project.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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