Ktouch's "lectures" are hidden away and took a bit of time (and an expert Linux guru) to locate
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KDE Educational Applications |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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kdeedu (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ktouch
After adding this package-which I have used before-KTouch made it a mystery to find and open a lecture in order to begin to learn to type.
It was unclear if I should "start a new session" under the training dropdown or "open a lecture" under the file dropdown.
After complaining to my boyfriend, he took control, dropping to the command line and doing some magic that the average user would not be able to understand. In his words, he issued the command "dpkg -L ktouch" to list all the files in the ktouch package. He discovered some xml files under /usr/share/
This is way too hard to find.
Update: with KDE4 the path for lesson files is now /usr/share/
Changed in kdeedu: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in kdeedu: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
description: | updated |
Changed in kdeedu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in kdeedu (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in kdeedu: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in kdeedu: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Version: 1.5 (using KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" , SUSE 10.0 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler: Target: i586-suse-linux
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15.8-default
I was looking for a type trainer, so I had a look at ktouch. I found it somewhat difficult to get started with it. maybe you could take the following points in into consideration:
initial start: The first session should be loaded by default.
help manual:
- screenshots unuseable
- very technical
- something like 'how to get it running without reading the instructions' is missing
What the user wants: Open the program, start a training session. share/apps/ ktouch/ ).
So if the first session is not loaded by default, the file->open dialog should at least point to the right directory (I assume this is /opt/kde3/
Now, in there are some *.ktouch.xml files. But the manual decribes that the lession files end on .ktouch -> this should be synchronized
Next the user may ask: So, what file do I have to select? Proposal: create subdirectories per language.
More, comparing it with commercial products, a brief description of what shall be learned in each section/line could also help to find a decision.