BOSS-Linux/C2/BOSS-Linux-Desktop/English-timed

Title of script:Overview of BOSS Desktop

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: BOSS OS,Overview, Desktop, Synaptic Package Manager

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on BOSS Desktop.
00:06	In this tutorial, we will get familiar with the BOSS Desktop environment.
00:12	Here, I am using BOSS Linux 3.4.2 with wide Indian language support & packages.
00:21	Let me minimize the slides.
00:24	What you are seeing here, is the BOSS Desktop.
00:28	You can see the main menu on the top left hand side corner.
00:33	To open this menu, press Alt+F1 keys simultaneously on your keyboard.
00:42	Alternately, click on Applications menu.
00:46	The Applications menu contains all the installed applications in a categorized manner.
00:54	In this Applications menu, let us get familiar with some important applications.
01:01	So, let's go to Applications, Accessories, Calculator.
01:08	Calculator helps perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations.
01:16	Let's open the calculator by clicking on it.
01:20	Let us try some simple calculations.
01:23	Type 5*(into)8 and press '='(equals to) sign.
01:29	Instead of pressing '='(equals to) sign, you can also press the Enter key.
01:35	Now, exit this calculator by pressing the close button.
01:40	Now let's look at another application.
01:43	For that, go back to Applications, then go to Accessories.
01:49	In Accessories, let's open gedit Text Editor by clicking on it.
01:56	So, what you see right now on screen is the gedit Text Editor.
02:02	Let me type some text here and save it.
02:06	Type: Hello World.
02:11	To save the file, I can press Crtl+S keys or go to File and then click on Save.
02:20	So, let me go to File and then click on Save.
02:26	The Save As dialog box opens up.
02:29	It prompts for filename and location in which the file has to be saved.
02:36	So, let me type the name as hello.txt and for location, I will select the Desktop.
02:47	Click on Save button.
02:49	Let's close this gedit window now and check whether our file is saved on the Desktop or not.
02:58	Now come to the Desktop and you can see the file hello.txt here.
03:05	So, our text file has got saved successfully.
03:10	Let me open this file by double-clicking on it.
03:14	Here is our text "Hello World".
03:18	We can type in multiple local languages too, in the gedit text editor.
03:24	Let us see how to do so.
03:27	In gedit Text Editor, press CTRL + SPACE BAR.
03:33	You can see a small box at the bottom right hand side.
03:39	Click on it.
03:41	Select Hindi.
03:43	Inscript.
03:45	I will type hello world.
03:49	You can see the text has changed to Hindi Inscript.
03:53	Now I will select Hindi, then I will select Phonetic.
03:59	I will type welcome using phonetics.
04:03	And you can see the word welcome typed in Hindi.
04:08	Now, click on Save to save the changes.
04:11	Let's close this text editor and let's see another important application from Accessories i.e Terminal.
04:20	So, let's move back to Applications , Accessories and then Terminal.
04:27	Terminal is called command line because you can command the computer from here. In fact, it is more powerful than the GUI.
04:40	Now let's type a simple command to get a feel of Terminal.
04:45	So, let's type "ls" and press Enter.
04:50	You can see it lists all the files and folders in the current working directory.
04:57	Here it is displaying files and folders from the Home folder.
05:02	We will see later in this tutorial what the Home folder is.
05:07	Terminal commands are explained well in the subsequent Linux spoken tutorials in this series.
05:15	Let us close the Terminal now.
05:18	Now let's move on to another application i.e Iceweasel Web Browser.
05:25	This is the default web-browser on the BOSS Operating System.
05:30	Click on Applications > Internet > Iceweasel Web Browser.
05:36	Iceweasel is the re-branded version of Firefox.
05:41	Using this browser, you can access your emails or search for some information on the net.
05:49	Let's go to the google-site.
05:51	The short-cut key to go to the address bar is F6.
05:56	Or you can click here on the address bar.
06:00	I will type www.google.co.in
06:07	As I type, Iceweasel may suggest a few possibilities.
06:11	You may choose one of these...
06:14	... or continue to type the complete address and press Enter.
06:19	We are now in the google search page. Let us type spoken tutorial in the search bar.
06:27	The spoken tutorial website is listed as the first option. Let's click on it.
06:34	This will open the spoken tutorial home page.
06:38	So, let's close this and move on.
06:42	Now, let's click on Applications and then on Office.
06:48	In this Office menu, we have LibreOffice options like Writer, Calc and Impress.
06:57	These are the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation components of LibreOffice Suite.
07:04	The Spoken Tutorial website has spoken tutorials on these topics. We suggest that you explore them.
07:12	Next, under Applications, let's explore Sound &Video menu.
07:19	This option lists the various player options available in BOSS OS.
07:27	You can use any of these options to play your video or audio files.
07:33	Now, let's see some other important things. Let's go to Places menu this time.
07:41	The first option here is the Home folder.
07:45	Let's open it.
07:47	Every user has a unique Home folder in BOSS OS.
07:52	We can say that the Home folder is our house where we can store our files and folders.
08:00	Unless we permit, others cannot see them.
08:04	More information on file permissions is available in the 'Linux spoken tutorials', available on the spoken tutorial website.
08:14	In our Home folder, we can see other folders such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music etc.
08:25	In Linux, everything is a file.
08:29	Let's open the Desktop folder by double-clicking on it.
08:35	Hey, we can see that the same hello.txt file what we saved from gedit text editor is here.
08:44	So, this folder and the Desktop are the same.
08:49	Let me close this folder now.
08:52	Let's learn to change the Desktop theme now.
08:55	Go to the right hand side corner and click on the username displayed there.
09:02	In my case, the username is spoken. So, I will click on spoken.
09:09	Now, click on System Settings option.
09:13	The System Settings dialog box opens up.
09:16	Click on Background icon.
09:19	Choose any background from the list displayed.
09:23	It will appear as your new background.
09:27	Close this dialog box.
09:29	Now, we will come to the System Tools option available under 'Applications' menu.
09:36	This menu has many important options which help you to manage your desktop and the various applications.
09:44	Click on System tools, Administration and Synaptic Package Manager.
09:51	It will immediately prompt you for the admin password for authentication.
09:57	Type in your 'admin' password and click on Authenticate button.
10:02	Details on how to use Synaptic Package Manager is available in a separate tutorial in this series.
10:10	This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
10:14	Let us summarize.
10:15	In this tutorial, we learnt about:
10:18	the BOSS Desktop,
10:19	the main menu,
10:21	and many important features of BOSS Linux OS.
10:25	Watch the video available at the following link.
10:28	It summarizes the spoken tutorial project.
10:31	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
10:36	The Spoken Tutorial Project team: conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.
10:41	Gives certificates to those who pass an online test.
10:45	For more details, please write to: contact@spoken-tutorial.org
10:53	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
10:57	It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India.
11:05	More information on this mission is available at the following link:[1]
11:11	This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thank you for watching.

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