Re: [Tuxpaint-dev] 3-year-old user

2005-01-12 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eliminating the scroll buttons might be good. Neither my 3-year-old nor my 5-year-old uses them by choice. (the 5-year-old knows the scroll wheel is broken in the Open dialog) The 3-year-old quickly discovered and liked the

Re: [Tuxpaint-dev] 3-year-old user

2005-01-12 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: The big problems I saw were: 1. high mouse pressure 2. mouse rotation instead of sideways movement 3. accidental mouse rotation I've seen this problem, but have observed that kids *do* very quickly learn to use the mouse

Re: [Tuxpaint-dev] 3-year-old user

2005-01-12 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with this, but I don't see Tux Paint as being severely different for other programs. No, it isn't. The biggest differences are the use of color to indicate button state and the lack of filesystem access. The colour

Re: [Tuxpaint-dev] 3-year-old user

2005-01-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:47, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in The biggest differences are the use of color to indicate button state and the lack of filesystem access. The colour thing is really just a style issue (I'm sure there are themes for KDE and

Re: [Tuxpaint-dev] 3-year-old user

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:47:48PM +0100, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: The colour thing is really just a style issue (I'm sure there are themes for KDE and GNOME which do the same thing). But maybe real 'depressed' buttons will work better? What app did you use to draw the buttons, Bill?