From kde-edu-devel  Thu Apr 25 23:18:38 2002
From: Whitehawk Stormchaser <zerokode () gmx ! net>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:18:38 +0000
To: kde-edu-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-edu-devel] Fwd: still kdeedu
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Greetings, Thomas!
I am the creator / maintainer for the KMessedWords and KHangman, and this=
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the email, that I feel I need to answer; It was sent to Anne, but the EDU=
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develoment got it, namely me.

> > And what's worse: Both programs don't even tell their users that=20
everything
> > is about English words only. I'm sure if a German user is confronted =
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a
> > completely translated GUI for KMessedWords (s)he is going to try Germ=
an
> > words for a while until it dawns on him/her that this is not going to=
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work.
> > And most of them will dismiss the program(s) totally after such an
> > experience.

The KMessedWords has it's own dictionary, you probably already know that.=
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there you can change the words into any language. True, that the=20
documentation is a little bit outdated, but it specificaly says, not, tha=
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words are in english language, but, that they can be changed.

> The words for KHangMan are stored in text files like easy.txt and in=20
easy.txt
> you have just a list of words, one word per line.
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> Is xml better than text?
> I prefer using simple text files because it's easier for a teacher to c=
reate
> a simple text file with words than a xml one.
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> Please do tell us how to get that properly i18n'ed.
Anne: We have a REAL problem here... I am really not sure, weither i18n()=
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would be a good idea fr the programs, like KHangMan and KMessedWords, bec=
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setting that would mean (would it), that the shown words are the same=20
language as the KDE. What would happend, if someone wud want to play in=20
ANOTHER language?

Ideas wuld be nice here :)

Regards. ~W.
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I have Linux installed, but it just doesn't want to make coffee...
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