On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:12:00 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: No, I will not take part in a Gnome / KDE / Xfce flame war. > I just expressed my opinion and will be quiet about this topic > from now on.
There's no need to censor yourself on this matter. :) Neither do we have to settle on One True Desktop Environment. Taking our cue from Debian Desktop[1], we can support all three. The live-package devs have made this easy for us to experiment with by adding gnome-junior, kde-junior and xfce-junior package lists. So if you care about XFCE, please submit your ideas/screenshots/configs for a default XFCE desktop that would include debian-jr material and appeal to a broad range of ages. Likewise if you care about GNOME/KDE. I'm thinking: - some custom artwork (I have it from Gustavo Franco of the Debian Desktop group that Valessio Brito[2] is willing to help us with this). - a large panel with some buttons to launch apps with universal appeal to all (well, most) ages: - default menu - iceweasel (with some kid-oriented bookmarks to free/open resources: desktop backgrounds, music, videos, our own site, etc.) - terminal - tuxpaint - desktop toy (xpenguins start/stop) - a sampling of games (frozen bubble, supertux, tuxmath, tuxtype) - xmms applet - clock applet - panel toy applet (whatever default toy applet there is for the DE) - logout button The idea is not to be comprehensive, but to provide easy access to an initial sampling of things a child might want to play with right away when they first start using their accounts, I expect each child will remove/add different buttons to suit their tastes & needs. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ [2] See http://debian-community.org/ for a sample of his work; this page has some of Valessio's design ideas for that site. -- ,-. 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]
