NewFeatures
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New Features
Specific features OOo4Kids 1.0
Status:
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The size of the software OOo4Kids is 35-40% lower OpenOffice.org
- The portable version for Windows OOo4Kids occupies less than 140 MB on a USB stick
- OOo4Kids does not use Java
- Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
- Portable version for Windows
- New Start Center
- New set of application icons
- New color palette
- Default zoom to 115% user interface
- Lightweight user interface (either KDE or Gnome) and configurable via a configuration file (Linux)
- No registration on first use
- Simplified menus (Writer, Draw, Calc)
- Number of rows x columns limited to 256 X 64 (Calc)
- Only one default tab for any new document (Calc)
- Selecting the user level
- Toolbars eased
- Menu entry license (avoids recording during the first use)
- Assistant Functions in Calc based on user level
- Its built-in Windows (DirectX), Mac (QuickTime) and Linux (gstreamer) with Impress.
- User Preferences protected by password
- Annotations, color, pen size can be modified, saved, erased during a presentation (Impress)
- OOo4Kids and associated applications appear in the main menu (Linux only)
- Big cursor by default (Mac OS X only, under development)
- 3D OpenGL transitions (Impress, Mac OS X)
- Works on machines of type XO (OLPC)
- Includes related Schoolboy cursive fonts, Schoolboy Lines
- Includes police Andika Basic Regular
Remember, all these features can be realized as [WelcomeStudents / fr | Student Projects] (as a computer software project, ergonomics, etc..), and will be proposed for a retro-port OpenOffice.org if code quality merit.
Existing ports
- Linux Intel
- Linux PowerPC
- Linux MIPS processors (gdium like machines)
- Mac OS X Intel
- Mac OS X PowerPC
- Windows XP or superior
