<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Chris Ball wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>[Added ericb to CC; Eric, we're talking about which applications to<br>include by default on our OLPC XO-1.5 software release.]<br><br><blockquote type="cite">How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side?<br></blockquote><br>That's a good idea, thanks.<br><br>I haven't decided what to do about OpenOffice yet -- at the moment we<br>don't ship it, but do ship abiword and gnumeric. The options for it<br>look something like:<br><br>* just add the openoffice.org Fedora packages for GNOME.<br> (How much disk space would that use?)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To provide the somewhat equivalent programs in full version OOo in comparison to OOo4kids:</div><div><br></div><div>openoffice.org-writer </div><div>openoffice.org-calc </div><div>openoffice.org-draw</div><div>openoffice.org-impress </div><div><br></div><div>a yum install takes up ~300 MB, though I believe some of that is the actual download.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>* just add the Ooo4Kids activity for Sugar.<br><br>* just add the Ooo4Kids activity for Sugar, *and* find a way to make<br> the same activity launchable inside GNOME. This would need Ooo4Kids<br> to be useful for older kids as well, since they're the target<br> audience for using GNOME instead of Sugar.<br><br>The OOo4Kids activity is here:<br><br><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4241">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4241</a> (100MB)<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Claudia and I have been working with OOo4kids for the past few days and I really like it in both Sugar and Gnome and on my own Mac. (It can be launched in Gnome through /home/olpc/Activities/OOo4Kids.activity/resources/program/soffice) It has very nice icon driven interface and has much of the functionality I would expect in typical office applications. </div><div><br></div><div>I like the idea of have a single application that is usuable in both environments to reduce the overall footprint. Could we have it linked into the Gnome Menu?</div><div><br></div><div>The one question I have is in regards to localization. Can we have one bundle that supports localization, i.e. changes default language according sugar/OFW values, or would we need different bundles?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Reuben</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>