Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

[David Groos]

Jonathon, thanks for including all in the visioning with these e-mails.

You mentioned, 'new iTALC'.  Have you had a look at Alkis' sch-scripts?
Sounds like a bunch of scripts maybe but as a teacher when I look at it I
see a straight forward gui interface that does a *lot* of what I need it to
do.  Not only does it do the 'lock screen' and "share screen", logout and
shutdown stuff, but it has a menu option to edit lts.conf, update-ltsp-image
and a bunch of other maintenance stuff.  It is easily 500% quicker than
iTALC and... I've gotten everything to work.  Always, something I never
achieved with iTALC over the 2 years I used it.  It has rough edges--some of
the stuff is in Greek which I can't read, but all the stuff you need to read
(menu options and buttons) is in English.  I recommend you try it if it
'fits the bill' for you.  Alkis has a page or two about installing it...

David

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Scott Howard <showard314 at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
> <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Well, I guess the 26MB of stuff is indeed an issue, but where it
> > bothered us was that it adds a Qt3 Assistant menu item under
> > Programming, and currently that's the only item under Programming on the
> > Edubuntu menu, which could be kind of confusing for users.
> >
> > We could use some hacky ways to remove it, but the ideal thing for us to
> > do is just not to install it. We're quite confident that users who'll be
> > interesting in developing with Qt will know how to install the
> > documentation for it themselves :)
>
> Thanks for clarifying. One issue is that the online help for qcad
> won't show unless qt3-assistant is installed. However, I agree that
> qt3-assistant is confusing when added to the menu - this is a tough
> one to fix besides using magic unless we remove the .desktop file from
> the qt3-assistant package. That might have to be an ubuntu/edubuntu
> thing to do as I don't know if the debian maintainers would go for
> that. Either way I'll bump it down to "Recommends," but that won't
> solve this problem.
>
> I think the edubuntu project is great and am happy to help if you guys
> need anything.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
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