My suspicion is that most Edubuntu installs avoid Unity altogether and
use Gnome-fallback which offers the traditional Applications/Education
menu hierarchy. You will find that to be quite a bit deeper than just
GCompris
For my two cents' worth, I can't for the life of understand why any
regular user would want to trade the quick access of panel and desktop
icons and regular menus for the over-sized Unity icons...
Regards,
David Clinton
On 13-03-22 09:32 AM, Allan Kelly wrote:
Hi, I'm a long-time Linux user (over 10 years), father and IT
professional. My children, aged 6-12, are well used to using Linux.
I've just installed edubuntu 12.04.
My immediate impression is "what is the difference between this and
ubuntu?" - to be honest I can't find any! I think a casual user would
give edubuntu about 5 minutes before deleting it. I know what I'm
doing, and I got pretty frustrated!
Why? Well, the reason I installed it was to give my children an
environment filled with educational games and things they need for
school. Instead, they get the Unity bar filled with standard office
and system settings icons. Finding the educational programs is not
possible without knowing what you're looking for. All I could find is
gCompris (and which casual user would guess that!?), and that I found
by the totally unintuitive "Dash home" -> "Show all applications".
I do think this could be easily fixed.
1. Put educational icons on the unity bar by default.
2. Provide a grouped lit of educational tools in the Application list.
That seems easy, I hope it can be done for future releases.
Cheers, al.
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