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Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Re: My idea on kdeedu.
From:       Robert Gogolok <mail () robert-gogolok ! de>
Date:       2002-04-25 10:24:20
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On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:53, Piotr Szymański wrote:
> Hello,
> I.) kletres
> The problem with kdeedu is that its programs are mostly connected to one
> language and have no l10n framework. I believe that it would be agreat idea
> to have a program like klettres to learn other alphabets, not only for
> children,  because people who are learning other languages often have
> trouble with learning new alphabets, especially if those alphabets
> extremely differ
>
> >from their native one, Japanese alphabets would be a great example here. I
> > am
>
> just beginnig to learn that language, but I already have problems with
> getting used to kana and a program which would allow me to learn at least
> one of kana alphabets would be very welcome.
> How should it look from the programmers point of view:
> 1.) kdeedu/kletres we make subdir called i18n
> 2.) In the i18n dir we put the files which would be l10n. Those files would
> include:
> - sound files in ./sound
Hmm, would be maybe to big for kde-edu and if it's too big the user can d/l 
the files and install them using klettres...

> - graphics in ./gfx
> - an alphabet definition, which would be parsed by kletres, it would be
> created by the i18n team ex. the Japan team would make a file with 4
> alphabet definitions (for both of kana, kanji and romanji), kletres would
> read it, and it would have a select bar which would consist of 4
> positions....
> We could use xml for this:
> <xml>
> <letter>ぐ</letter>
> <sound>gu.wav</sound>
> </xml>
> 3.) The interface would look like this:
> - the program would load the default alphabet for the language that is
> chosen in kde control center.
> - if user wants to learn a diferent language, then he/she would click on
> Settings->Language, and the submenu in there would be order like the
> locales in the control center, and if a language has several alphabets,
> when user would mouseover the language name, it  would  display a submenu
> with the alphabet names. ex. If I want to learn Japanesee hiragana, I
> would: click Settings->Language->Asia & oceania->Japanese->Hiragana.
>
> II.) khangman
> Well it is more of a game, than an edu program, but that does not really
> matter. My idea on 10n of khangman is to create a file containing words
> that would be guessed, order by level:
> <xml>
> <level>Easy</level>
> <word>bird</word>
> </xml>
> etc...
>
> III.) kmessedwords
> It is also an edugame, the idea would be similar khangman:
> <xml>
> <level>Easy</level>
> <mangled>ribd</mangled>
> <word>bird</word>
> </xml>
> As for the screens we could create a subdir containing them, it would be
> later copied to kde-18n.

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