On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:02, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > [...] On top of that, they need to be guaranteed file > interoperability which KWord and OOo Writer don't make obvious (by > defaulting to different formats). > > In a skolelinux school, I think that means skolelinux making the choice. > That means making a choice of application for each task and disappearing > the others. There are at least two means to achieve this: > > - remove the other applications. > - don't put them in the menus or toolbars. > > I favour the former because: > > - it saves cdrom and disk space and speeds up the installer > - if a school admin chooses to use an alternative, it should get > installed and linked into the menus automatically
Good points. > Now the hard part. We would need to choose the applications, drop the > others and configure the desktop environment to advertise the choices. I > see no reason to have KOffice *and* ooWriter. In fact I have seen this > cause confusion. Indeed it can. However, OpenOffice is not appropriate everywhere. * OpenOffice is heavy * Koffice has a leaner GUI and feature set, making it more suitable for the younger kids (this comes from a teacher) * OpenOffice is not translated to the same languages as Koffice (Koffice is partially translated to Sami, OpenOffice is not) This _may_ be solvable at install time. The translation issue can be resolved without any extra user input: If the chosen locale does not have an OpenOffice translation, but a Koffice translation, then trigger the Koffice installation. I think Ubuntulinux, as a commercial entity, can impose a "one size fits all" policy. Debian-edu work by consensus, so there will be more redundancy here. -- Herman Robak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]