On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:56:18AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:05:33 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:50:59PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > > > What do you think of gcompris? It embeds tuxpaint. It is a self-contained environment with activities for kids. > > > > I played with gcompris a bit... its pretty cool and is definitely a > > good interface for 3 to at least probably 6 or 7. It seems to be > > slightly broken in sid though. > > I'll see if I can reproduce your problem. Meanwhile, go ahead and file a bug. not reproducible on my other box. must be just the one. > > > that said, if it did work, you could certainly use gcompris as a total > > environment for the very small. just putting it in .xinitrc works > > great. > > This is the direction I'm biased towards, rather than some sort of > configuration front-end as you suggested. Keep on adding to the > wiki so that our users can easily find out how to configure their > Debian systems to suit the needs of their child users. yeah, I'll get over to the wiki soon and put some stuff in it. > > I've always kept the Jr project's code as lightweight as possible, preferring to do everything via mere configuration. If a configuration front-end for managing user accounts is generally useful, then it should be worthwhile as a separate project of its own. If such a thing manages to get off the ground, and we agree that it would make things easier for our users, then we can evaluate it if-and-when it becomes available. understood. a general user account management front-end could easily be used by deb-jr, maybe with soem kind of plug-in or something. But I also understand that keeping it light is important. Certainly, if the configs are really easy, then that's the way to go. I was just thinking that some sort of sane, simple way to setup up those configs would be nice. Select a user -> select an age appropriate level -> save changes and then the kid/user logs into a new desktop. > > Of course, I wouldn't discourage anyone from participating in such a project if they have something to contribute and feel it would help us. :) A
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