On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]> wrote:
> Due to some problem one of our lab is installed with ubuntu but within > 3months of time ubuntu is removed. Reasons are faculty members find it > difficult to use(!), > they are'nt ready to learn new things(they need > only start menu),they are'nt ready to search for alternatives and to > use it. It is really a sad state of affairs when the very people who are supposed to open the minds (be the guiding light) of the future generation have an extremely closed mind set and are unwilling to look at different things, upgrade their skill set and keep up with the times. Sadly, this is the state of affairs in the majority of the educational institutions and we claim to be the world's "IT power house" > So am thinking to create a distribution which will be more or > less as like windows(so that they will not hate it and in long run > they will become interested in free software) and it will consists all > required softwares preinstalled. > > Tell me a suggestion whether to start this or to try anyother(if > creating a distribution is not worthy). To mitigate the UI issue I have found the "XPGnome" theme [1] for the GNOME desktop works with end users. Most people get pysched out when they do not see the familiar "Start" button on the bottom left corner of the screen that is the crux of the problem. They have no problems clicking on the button and discovering the applications from there. I have done a Cybercafe roll out with Ubuntu desktops using this theme and the owner has not complained of any user issues. In fact, some of his users have also brought .docx files edited them in OO. [1] <http://ubuntu.online02.com/node/14> My 10 paise. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
