You know, after all this talk about roles, I'm having doubts as to whether it's really important or not. Looking at my own family's use of Debian we've lived quite well without them. What in fact happens is not a clear transition from one role to the next. Instead, as the kids have grown up we've gradually tweaked each person's account to suit their changing tastes.
I think it would be best to set aside the "roles" idea for now and instead focus on a single desktop arrangement that is highly usable by everyone from preschoolers up through adults as a reasonable "starting point" for making customizations to suit the tastes/needs of people of all ages. That is, aim for the "lowest common denominator". We have talked about using a highly constrained "kidproof" desktop (e.g. making gcompris your "shell") for the very young and recorded some ideas about that on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianJrSpecialSession which I think is an excellent idea. But that's pretty specialized. I think our default desktop should be simple, functional for those who are a little older (maybe age 4 or so) but not styled in such a way that older kids can't get at what they want, and not embarrassingly "preschool" themed. Ideas? Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
