Hi,
Mods, I don't know if this should be here or in the OpenOffice Portable Support section or in the General Discussion section, I decided to leave it to your decision to move it or keep it here.
My kid's school requested a USB memory stick to save some homework, they are all windows (2000, 98, and xp) and I decided that this is a good opportunity to introduce them to "my" open source world. So I'm going to give away some cheap 4Gb pendrives with PortableApps.com preinstaled on it as a present to some of my kid's closest school friends.
The first think I thought was to use ooo4kids instead of the regular OpenOffice Portable so...
I suppose that I can just install ooo4kids on my computer and then replace the content of the App folder at the OpenOffice Portable folder, but I want to be sure I'm doing the rigth thing so I'm asking if this should be the procedure.
And, at the same time, I think it's a nice opportunity to request to portabilize ooo4kids in paf format (they already provide a portable version, but I'm not sure if it is "pafed").
I'm thinking and searching other open source software for kids that works on windows to request it too, but that will be later 
Thanks in advance.
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I think it depends on how old the kids are. OOo4Kids is actually built on an outdated OO.o Portable launcher which is not fully compatible with Vista or Windows 7. I believe the OO.o version included is also outdated (3.0-ish I think). Do you know if it is still maintained?
It's basically OO.o with a modified start screen and the toolbars slightly modified to be a simple beginner toolbar (Font, Decrease Font, Increase Font, Bold, Underline, Italic, Insert Picture From File, Picture Gallery and Show Drawing Functions) and then a modified drawing table on the left side. OOo4Kids site says it is for 7-12, but it seems more geared towards K-6.
For most 'kids', OO.o itself is just fine. If it's for younger kids, you can customize OO.o to use a toolbar like OOo4Kids yourself quite easily.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I mean kids of 10 years old... Can you provide me a link on how to customize the toolbar so I can use regular OOo???
BTW, the version I downloaded yesterday is 0.9 the version I downloaded about 3 months ago was 0.6... I don't know if it was my mistake but it looks like an active project...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Under View you can turn toolbars on and off. Using the little arrow things at the end of the toolbars you can customize them and make new ones. Explore a bit. It's figure-out-able really easily.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Ok, I thought you where talking about changing colors or icons... fine, I hace done that...
Thank you.-
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report