El d�03/10/2005 a 16:25 Sam Hart escribi� > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:44 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > <snip> > > > The only reason why Gnome now seems more viable than it used to is > > > because of all the support in the desktop environment for out-of-the-box > > > USB devices. > > > > I think KDE does, too, or is close. I guess it depends on what exactly > > Gnome is _doing_ with the devices. > > It's magic trickery to be sure... I never could figure it all out. All I > know is it worked extremely well with just about any USB device I > plugged in. > It's basically hal, dbus and related stuff the ones to blame. > > Again... a more limited interface is much better for children and > especially in classroom or educational environments. Personally... I > wouldn't use Gnome myself... but I can't deny I've seen it is very > successful with people who get confused with everything available to > them in other WM/DEs. Now that I remember, there's a children-oriented Live CD, called pequelin[0]. They have tweaked the GNOME menu to make it simple. Its based on metadistros[1] IIRC. 0- http://www.pequelin.org is the official site, but seems down now 1- http://metadistros.software-libre.org/en/ -Rudy -- Rudy Godoy | 0x3433BD21 | http://stone-head.org ,''`. http://www.apesol.org - http://www.debian.org : :' : GPG FP: 0D12 8537 607E 2DF5 4EFB 35A7 550F 1A00 3433 BD21 `. `' `-
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