echo "default_driver=alsa" >> ~/.libao
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Ana Greavu-Rachow <pawsitiveresults@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I've got the page bookmarked to take a look later--the clean editing screen, especially on a netbook, looks terrific.On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Lord Drachenblut <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
expanding on my mention of focus writer earlier. it is a full screen text editor basically. very light weight written in qt. the dev is very responsive to emails about issues.cheers--On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Ana Greavu-Rachow <pawsitiveresults@gmail.com> wrote:At 11, her requirements are fairly basic :-)--On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Steven Black <yam655@gmail.com> wrote:
Ana, I mentioned my experience with the folks that make Scrivener.
They have an unsupported beta version for Linux.
If your daughter is writing longer things, it is really ideal. The big
difference between it and a word-processing program is that it is
designed to make it easy to manipulate the structure of a story
without copying and pasting anything. Once things are ready, it gets
compiled in to an RTF file and final styling can be done in your
word-processing program of choice.
They used QT for the Windows version, so it was basically a recompile.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/ (includes
videos -- it is the same codebase)
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=9150
http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=9154&start=0
I'm using it for NaNoWriMo this year. (Though with my changing job
priorities, I'm in Windows more than not so I'm beta testing the
Windows version.)
Their goal was always to get a Linux-native version, but they hadn't
originally planned to make anything available for Linux until after
they had released the Windows version. There was sufficient demand for
a Linux version and there were some issues getting it to work in Wine.
(Bringing it back to Wine.)
Cheers,
Steven Black
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ana Greavu-Rachow
<pawsitiveresults@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL!
> Husband has been teaching stepdaughter to play chess.... "Wow! There are
> ALL THESE CHESS GAMES on here, Dad!"
> She also likes to write stories...and I've got OOo on her Dad's Windows
> machine, so she's totally accustomed to using that instead of a Microsoft
> product. Her little hands are really the ideal size for a tiny little
> netbook keyboard, and, as I said, she's just really quickly taken to it.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ana. Do you have a shovel? I need to dig myself out of this hole
>> I've gotten into. ;-)
>>
>> I'm happy to see that you've had lots of success converting people.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:28:17PM GMT, Ana Greavu-Rachow
>> [pawsitiveresults@gmail.com] said the following:
>> > I've got my husband using a Linux netbook these days, and my 11-year-old
>> > stepdaughter is constantly asking to borrow it...I gave her an older
>> > Mac,
>> > that she pretty much refused to learn to use, but she's doing MUCH
>> > better
>> > with Linux...
>> >
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>> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > I saw an interesting thing happen on Saturday at PC Max.
>> > >
>> > > While in there looking for wireless bridging equipment, I overheard a
>> > > conversation between two customers, a mother and what I assume was her
>> > > teenage son, talking to the salesman about Linux. The interesting
>> > > thing
>> > > is that the mother was actually trying to convince her son that Linux
>> > > was good and he was the one being skeptical, making an excuse about it
>> > > possibly not running many games. Being the geek I am, I suddenly felt
>> > > and uncontrollable urge to become a 12 year old kid in a computer
>> > > store
>> > > and found myself interjecting that it does play lots of games using
>> > > Wine
>> > > and pointed out that probably half the games that you see on the
>> > > shelves
>> > > would actually fully install and run under Wine these days. It at
>> > > least
>> > > seemed to debunk a myth for him a little bit.
>> > >
>> > > I'm not saying that it was unusual for a woman to be advocating
>> > > Linux,
>> > > or perhaps even a mother, its just that you don't see it happen often
>> > > or
>> > > even hear of it happening often. Anyways, thought it was an
>> > > interesting
>> > > thing to share.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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