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Subject: Re: [kde-edu]: Step is moved for review to be included in kde-edu
From: Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus () gmx ! de>
Date: 2008-04-03 17:55:03
Message-ID: 200804031955.04095.cniehaus () gmx ! de
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Moin Vladimir and list!
Today, I tested Step quite a lot and have a bit of feedback.
First, I demo'ed it to some of my students (7th grade (~13y) and 10th grade
(~16y)) and let them play with it on their own. Most of them *really* liked
it! Several at once asked where they can download it. The discussion with
them and with physics teachers resulted in these three bugreports:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160332
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160334
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160335
There were almost no negative comments. I will try to list them here:
1. Missing documentation (both handbook and this nice GUI-help-widget-thing in
the bottom right corner)
2. Missing german translation
→ This will of course be fixed as soon as Step is in kdeedu, I just wanted to
mention it here as it was almost the only real complaint ;-)
3. Some students have issues finding options. For example, some asked me "How
can I change the colour of this item". They (of course) do not associate
#FF0000 with "Blue".
4. We closed those widgets on the right and didn't find a way to readd them...
In the end I removed ~/.kde4/share/config/steprc but that is of course a
crappy way...
5.1. More examples. Let me repeat this: More examples :-) Serious, the
students loved to play with Step and with 10 more examples they would have
stress tested it 30 more minutes ;-)
5.2. More examples. Let me repeat this: More examples :-) Serious, the
teachers told me they find it a bit hard to construct examples. They
understand how to do it and would manage it but with more examples it would
be possible to (instead of constructing a completly new .step-file) start
with an example and modify it for your own needs.
6. Sometimes the label-widgets make it impossible to select items. For example
because a particle happens to be 'over' the label. I think that labels should
be at the bottom most "layer"
7. The selections-squares (you known, those little handles to for example
change the speed or direction) are a little to small (or my
hand-eye-coordination sucks, I don't know). But +1 pixel could already help
here I think...
This post sounds negative, but it is not. Those are the issues teachers and
studends found, I simply didn't list the positive comments!
So, summa summarum: Step rocks and is *definetly* usable in school and will be
even more so when we finished some of the listed 'issues'.
Carsten
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