Userful DiscoverStation® 4 Programs

The following programs are available on the default DiscoverStation 4 installation:

• HTML Editor
• Internet
• Photo Editor
• Presentations
• Project Management
• Spread Sheet
• Word Processor
• Accessories
  • Amsn Instant Messanger
  • Calculator
  • Character Map
  • Dictionary
  • gFTP
  • Instant Messenger
  • IRC
  • Refresh Desktop
  • Terminal Server Client
  • Text Editor
  • VNC Viewer
• Devices
  • Removable Media
  • Web Drives
• Graphics
  • Adobe Reader
  • Drawing
  • gThumb Viewer
  • Image Viewer
  • Photo Editor
• Preferences
  • Accessibility
  • Appearance
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• Sound and Video
  • Audio Player
  • CD Player
  • GnomeBaker
  • Mplayer Media Player
  • Volume Control

The following optional applications and packages are available for DiscoverStation 4:

• ICAClient - The Citrix client
• Denemo - Music notation program
• Dia - Diagram drawing program
• DjVu - DjVu viewer and browser plugin
• Glables - a label maker
• Gnome Games - this is a single package which includes:
  • AisleRiot Solitaire (this is the "normal" solitaire game)
  • Ataxx - A disc flipping game
  • Black Jack
  • Five or More
  • Four in a Row
  • Free Cell Solitaire
  • Igano
  • Klostki
  • Mahjongg
  • Mines
  • Nibbles
  • Robots
  • Same Gnome
  • Tali
  • Tetravex
• KdeEdu - KDE Educational/Edutaminment applications package wich includes:
  • Kalzium - Kalzium is a program which shows you the Periodic Table of Elements. You can use Kalzium to search for information about the elements or to learn facts about the periodic table.
  • KBruch - KBruch is a small program to practice calculating with fractions. Different exercises are provided for this purpose. The program checks user's input and gives feedback.
  • KEduca - KEduca is flash card application, which allows you to make interactive form based tests.
  • KEduca-Editor
  • KHangeMan - KHangMan is a game based on the well-known hangman game. It is aimed at children aged six and over.
  • Kig - Kig is an application for Interactive Geometry. It's intended to serve two purposes: Allow students to interactively explore mathematical figures and concepts using the computer; Serve as a WYSIWYG tool for drawing mathematical figures and including them in other documents.
  • Kiten - Kiten is a Japanese reference/study tool. Firstly, it is a convenient English to Japanese and Japanese to English dictionary; secondly, it is a Kanji dictionary, with multiple ways to look up specific characters; thirdly, it is a tool to help you learn Kanji.
  • KLatin - KLatin is a program to help revise Latin. There are three “sections” in which different aspects of the language can be revised. These are the vocabulary, grammar, and verb testing sections. In addition there is a set of revision notes that can be used for self-guided revision.
  • KLettres - KLettres is an application specially designed to do help the user to learn alphabet in a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables. The user can be a young child aged from two and a half or an adult that wants to learn the basics of a foreign language.
  • KMessedWords - KMessedWords is a simple mind-training game, in which you have to "figure out" the word that has been given in the program. I have "labeled" this program for children over 10 years, as the game is solvable harder as it looks. I had many problems with figuring out the words, and... And I wrote the darn thing!
  • KMPlot - KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter for the KDE Desktop. It has a powerful built-in parser. You can plot different functions simultaneously and combine them to build new functions.
  • KPercentage - KPercentage is a small math application that will help pupils to improve their skills in calculating percentages.
  • KStars - KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It depicts an accurate simulation of the night sky, including stars, constellations, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, all planets, the Sun, the Moon, comets and asteroids. You can see the sky as it appears from any location on Earth, on any date. The user interface is highly intuitive and flexible; the display can be panned and zoomed with the mouse, and you can easily identify objects, and track their motion across the sky. KStars includes many powerful features, yet the interface is clean and simple, and fun to use.
  • Ktouch - KTouch is a program for learning to touch type. KTouch provides you with text to train on and adjusts to different levels depending on how good you are. It displays which key to press next and the correct finger to use.
  • KTurtle - KTurtle is an educational programming environment using the Logo programming language. The unique quality of LOGO is that the programming commands are translated to the language of the 'programmer' so he/she can program in his/her native language.
  • Kverbos - With KVerbos the user can learn the forms of Spanish verbs. The program suggests a verb and a time and the user enters the different forms. The program corrects the user input an gives a feedback.
  • KVocTrain - KVocTrain is a KDE vocabulary program to help you train your vocabulary, when you are trying to learn a foreign language for example. You can create your own files with the words you need.
• Kino - A video editor
• Scribus - Desktop publishing
• Tuxpaint - Drawing for Kids

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