Re: Gnome for Educational Usage

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

I'm interested in this as well.  I think GNOME is the perfect evironment
once Nautilus matures a we tiny bit.  Probable the cvs version is there.

There are some great apps available like DrGenius, Dia etc.  Maybe we
can pump the idea a bit and get something going.

On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 19:55, Matt Jezorek wrote:
> Has anyone tried or know of a project that is working to simplify the Gnome interface for educational purposes. I posted a similar quesiton to the KDE Edu group and I got laughed at I feel.
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> Here is the situation.
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> We are working on building a distribution that will be used in educational groups. K-12 mostly it will be packed with various educational applications, games, administration packages . We are wanting a very simple interface with as much point and click as possible. We are wanting to run Gnome in a kiosk kinda mode that will disable scripting access, shell ALT-F2 kinda things. The reasons behind this is, we feel that a kid will break what they can break without meaning to. Also we are wanting them to have a very smooth transition from Windows to Linux (so school systems can avoid licensing issues) The goal is not so much as to teach children Linux but to get Linux into the school systems with minimal fuss (they can later learn the workings of Linux once its in the school ) but we know in order to get Linux into the schools it has to be very easy to use. Most schools are administered by a teacher or something of this nature we want it easy to do. For more information reply t!
o this with questions so I can answer them
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> Matt Jezorek
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> matt bluelinux org
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