Re: [Help] Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

Sam Hart <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.jr,gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:24 +0200, Conrad Newton wrote:
> From Sam Hart on Tuesday, 2005-05-31 at 08:33:53 -0500:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:35 +0200, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> > > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > > [Andreas Tille]
> > > > 
> > > >>  3. Are there alternatives for this program which are actively maintained?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm aware of ktouch for practicing touch typing, but have never tried
> > > > tipptrainer so I do not know if it is an alternative or not.
> > > 
> > > There is also tuxtype, which is not on the Sarge PreRelease cd's, but
> > > that works fine.
> > 
> > There was some work a while back to make tuxtype so that it was suitable
> > for touch typing, but I haven't checked on it lately to see how far
> > Jesse got with it (I know, I'm a bad tux4kids guy).
> 
> Astri Kleppe had a suggestion that I really liked -- I even posted it on
> the Tux Typing forum last summer, but I never got any response.

Yes, Tux4Kids in general is having a rough spell. Many of the developers
have become rather busy, and the project leader (myself) had a year of
turmoil :-)

> Tux Math has just reappeared in Debian with improvements to make
> it more configurable.  I think it would be fantastic if someone
> would do the same with Tux Typing.  Clearly there is room both
> for an action program like Tux Typing and a more sober program
> along the lines of KTouch, which functions better on thin clients.

I agree. Unfortunately, we need some help (what we really need are some
people to help with the infrastructure work, e.g., servers and admining,
as it seems whenever I get too busy to keep up there, things die down
pretty rapidly).

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