Debian Junior Project
Summary
toys
Debian Jr. desktop toys

This metapackage will install desktop toys suitable for children. The collection contains some packages which might enjoy children and make them love their computer.

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Debian Junior toys packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

bambam
keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
Maintainer: Marcin Owsiany
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Bambam is a simple baby keyboard masher application that locks the keyboard and mouse and instead displays bright colors, pictures, and sounds.

Note: for safety it is recommended to run the game in a dedicated login session, rather than as an application in your regular session, especially when leaving your child unattended with the game. Look for session type BamBam in your display manager login screen.

bubblefishymon
aplicación de carga del sistema con un pato
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Una aplicación que monitoriza la carga, descendiente de wmfishtime y bubblemon. Las características incluyen peces que representan el tráfico de la red, burbujas que representan el uso de la CPU y un pato que representa a un pato.

cheese
herramienta para fotografiar y grabar vídeos desde la webcam
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Una aplicación de webcam que permite fotografiar y grabar vídeos. Hace fácil la toma de fotografías y vídeos del usuario, sus amigos, mascotas o cualquier cosa que desee. Permite aplicar fantásticos efectos visuales, control fino de los ajustes de la imagen y tiene características como modo multirráfaga y cuenta regresiva para fotos.

dasher
graphical predictive text input system
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Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example,

  • on a palmtop computer
  • on a wearable computer
  • when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse
  • when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker).

The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 25 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.

Dasher uses a more advanced prediction algorithm than the T9(tm) system often used in mobile phones, making it sensitive to surrounding context.

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gamine
Interactive game for young children
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Gamine is a game designed for 2 years old children who are not able to use a keyboard.

The child uses the mouse to draw coloured dots and lines on the screen.

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gespeaker
GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
Maintainer: Fabio Castelli
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Gespeaker is a GTK+ frontend for eSpeak and mbrola. It allows one to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap.

Since version 0.6 it can use mbrola package and voices to obtain a more realistic text reading experience.

gtkguitune
??? missing short description for package gtkguitune :-(
Maintainer: Antonin Kral
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gworldclock
Displays time and date in specified time zones
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This program displays the time and date of specified time zones using a GTK+ interface. It also provides a "rendezvous" function allowing the zones to be synchronised to a time other than the current time. This can help you organise meetings across different timezones.

The time zones may be entered by hand in TZ format or chosen from a list prepared from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab. The zone list is kept in a format consistent with the shell script tzwatch.

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oneko
cat chases the cursor (now a mouse) around the screen
Maintainer: Ricardo Mones
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A cat (neko) chases the cursor (now a mouse) around the screen while you work. Alternatively, a dog chases a bone. There are menu options for starting and stopping the program easily on cat and dog modes. Other variations and detailed configurations are available through command line options.

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xfireworks
Fuegos artificiales en la ventana raíz
Maintainer: Yukiharu YABUKI
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XFireworks dibuja fuegos artificiales en la ventana raíz de X. Esta es una imitación del japonés «Hanabi Taikai». Éste es un evento muy popular en el verano japonés y se realiza en algunos ríos.

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xfishtank
turns your X root into an aquarium
Maintainer: Marius Gavrilescu
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Enjoy an animated aquarium background with a variety of tropical fish swimming in it on your screen.

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xpenguins
Pequeños pingüinos caminan sobre las ventanas
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¿Alguna vez ha querido que pequeños y bonitos pingüinos caminen a lo largo de la parte superior de sus ventanas? ¿Alguna vez ha querido enviar un ejército de pequeños y lindos pingüinos a invadir la pantalla de alguien más de su red? Probablemente no, pero ¿por qué no prueba este programa de todas formas?, ¡Mola!

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xplanet
planetary body renderer
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Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file. All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, and different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, hemisphere, Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, Peters, polyconic, and rectangular.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. Some maps are included in the xplanet-images package.

The package is enhanced by the following packages: xplanet-images
xplanet-images
imagery for xplanet
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Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.

xteddy
cuddly teddy bear (or other image) for your X desktop
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Normally, xteddy just sits around doing nothing. After all, that's what teddy bears are for. Look at him, talk to him, place heavy windows on top of him, zap him around until he becomes dizzy, do what you like; he will always be your true (albeit virtual) friend. Now you can load other pixmaps than the nice teddy, too.

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