Re: the official announcement

On Friday 27 August 2010 14:45:09 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) wrote:
> 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

I agrea.... big bonus in custum solutions, specialy from a visual UI point of 
view. easy, cheep (developemnt time), good, scalable, and flexible.   


> 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-familia
> > > > r- wi th-
> > > > open-source<http://www.osor.eu/news/pt-nearly-all-school-children-get
> > > > ti 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?"

-- 
oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures"
 
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