New bible reading activity

[victor]

Considering all of the people the laptop is aimed at,
having an activity labelled as 'bible reading' does not exactly
do OLPC any favours.

Now, speaking for myself only, I feel there are many more
useful texts out there which would be more suitable to be
in activity's name. 'The Origin of Species", for one...

Victor Lazzarini

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morgan Collett" <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
To: <david at lang.hm>
Cc: <devel at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: New bible reading activity


> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>>
>>  space on the laptops is limited. it's not a good idea to have lots of
>>  different readers to read different documents (and along the same lines,
>>  it's not a good idea to have different browser packages with different
>>  home pages, like the gmail activity)
>>
>>  now if you do something unique with your document there may be a reason 
>> to
>>  have a seperate reader (and I have seen bible readers that did have such
>>  features)
>
> This is a port of existing software which has a specific format which
> enables certain features, such as the ability to jump directly to a
> particular book, chapter and verse. There are lots of versions
> available in numerous languages in this format, and though this port
> is rudimentary it has this feature.
>
> GnomeSword has features like reading different versions/translations
> in parallel, commentaries, dictionaries, maps, etc which all integrate
> into the same UI and display relevant info according to the current
> chapter and verse reference. I'm sure a good number of these features
> will be available in this port, with time.
>
> I'd consider that enough justification for a dedicated activity.
>
> Morgan
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