Re: the official announcement

Hi,

we can combine these words Nuno got with some ideas on what specific things for 
big deployments are better with KDE 4 compared with KDE 3

On Viernes 27 Agosto 2010 15:10:13 nuno pinheiro escribió:
> On Friday 27 August 2010 13:40:52 Justin Kirby wrote:
> > 2010/8/19 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) <[email protected]>
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > you already know it, but this is official from EU:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://www.osor.eu/news/pt-nearly-all-school-children-getting-familiar-
> > > wi th-
> > > open-source<http://www.osor.eu/news/pt-nearly-all-school-children-getti
> > > n g-familiar-with-%0Aopen-source>
> > 
> > Agustin,
> > 
> > I just had a look at this article.  Seems pretty cool...is this another
> > "success story" we can use in the white paper that folks have been
> > working on?  Or was this one already in there?  I do think I recall
> > Aaron mentioning Portugal deployments in his keynote at Akademy...
> > 
> > Anyways, I guess since this news release is from back in July it might be
> > a bit dated now in terms of putting something up on the Dot that is
> > "news" related.  But do you know someone who might be able to do more of
> > a feature article or interview with Paulo Trezentos about what Caixa
> > Mágica is and explain how it's using KDE and how it's been deployed to
> > all these students?
> > 
> > -Justin
> > 
> > > --
> > > Saludos
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > Agustín Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
> > > http://abenitobethencourt.blogspot.com
> > > http://toscalix.blogspot.com
> > > 
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> heeeeeeeeee me :)
> 
> This is a text they sent me at my request.....
> 
> "
> Flavio Moringa <[email protected]>
> 
> wrote
> 
> In 2009 the "Magalhães" project provided elementary school students from
> Portugal with 400.000 netbooks with dual-boot feature (Windows XP and Linux
> Caixa Mágica 12). The project was sponsored by the local government and had
> a very positive outcome, not only nationwide but also in the foreign
> comunity thus enforcing the idea that it is possible to empower and give
> technologies an early start and achieve excelent results.. Foreseeably
> there will be an additional supply of  300.000 of these netbooks in 2010
> to serve the needs both of the children who are starting their school year
> as well as the teachers who weren't included in the original distribution.
> The netbooks's dual-boot system (Windows 7 e Linux Caixa Mágica 14) will
> be maintained yet hardware and software updates are in order.
>      In 2009, "Caixa Mágica" implemented KDE 3.5.7 as the default desktop
> environment for Caixa Mágica 12 as KDE4 wasn't yet available at the time.
> One of the main chalenges was to make the work environment  into something
> that was not only easy to use but on the other hand also provided the user
> with quick access to what are considered to be the most important tools.
> We realised that the most straightforward way to do so was to have
> "Superkaramba" running, with a desktop widget. In KDE3, Superkaramba was
> one of the applications that allowed the placing of widgets containing
> animations and pseudo-transparency on a user's desktop. Therefore we
> developed a widget for Superkaramba that displayed four different segments
> on the desktop, all of them with quick links to what were thought to be
> the most relevant applications. Among countless other tweaks we also
> created a fairly big menu button, so it would be easier for the end user
> to know where to click in order to access the remaining applications, and
> increased the size of the taskbar so as to improve the visibility of its
> icons. An example of the 2009 interface can be seen in one of the
> attachments (magalhaes_2009.png).
>      Evidently this approach had its limitations:
>      - Superkaramba was required to be running as a service during KDE
> start up and it would sometimes not work as fully intended resulting in
> the non- display of the aforementioned widget;
>      - The widget configuration wasn't user-friendly enough;
>      - Icons would sometimes become "hidden" when they were placed on the
> desktop due to the pseudo-transparency of the widget;
>      - Reactivation of  the widget upon its shutdown wasn't simple.
>       In 2010, "Caixa Mágica" chose KDE 4.3.2 as a window environment being
> that it was the latest version available for Caixa Mágica 14 and KDE3 was
> no longer provided with any form of support. The main holdback was trying
> to maintain some of the same consistency of the 2009 version while using a
> completely new and different version of KDE so as to make the interface
> transition as smooth as possible. The optimal solution came to us rather
> quicly on account that most of the issues we had encountered in the 2009
> version of KDE3 had  already been  fixed in KDE4:
>      - The widgets that can be added do not need an external application
> and already work with real transparency - the plasmoids;
>      - Adding/Removing widgets is rather straighforward. After all, that's
> one of the main features of KDE 4;
>      - We set the desktop environment as "desktop" thus assuring that no
> icons could be placed on the desktop what would "ruin" the original look
> and feel. Nevertheless we made it easy for the user to switch back to the
> more conventional desktop environment "Folderview";
>      - The widget we incorporated looks similar to the one in the 2009
> version and is basically associated with folders. The necessary
> reconfigurations of every application that sits on the desktop can be
> performed swiftly so that all you have to do is create a new folder and
> place all the sub-folders and applications you want within it;
>      Alongside the provided solutions to all these handicaps we profited a
> cleaner environment with broader configuration options. It is also more
> stable in what the intended graphical outlook is concerned. (Desktop
> effects, removable devices's notifications, etc.).
>      In all regards we consider that the whole setup process we envisioned
> for this project was much more easier to accomplish in KDE4 environment
> than it had been with KDE3. That being so resulted in clear advantages to
> the developer as well as the end user.
> 
> "
> this was part of the cross marketing efort we have benn doing in oxygen,
> and all it took was a trip to lisbon and doing de plasmoid (kudos to
> thomaz) and the wallpaper, also the clock :)
> http://i.imgur.com/z4gM8.png
> 
> we need to do this sort of stuf for more local companies, litle efort alot
> of bonus, mostly a work of engaijing the people and staring conversations
> by, " So what can we do for you?"

-- 
Saludos

---
Agustín Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
http://abenitobethencourt.blogspot.com
http://toscalix.blogspot.com
 
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