Ahh .. the subject change on me! I give up! On Feb 21, 12:13 pm, Jason Waring <[email protected]> wrote: > Fair enough. Perhaps I should rephrase myself. I meant that to say > that *I* felt it was hijacked. > I came back to the list and couldn't find the topic. The name had > changed. > > On Feb 21, 11:36 am, Dianne Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No worries from me, Peter. See the other thread I started (Computers for > > Toddlers) to avoid confusion, but I didn't "feel hijacked". Nor did I care. > > Dianne > > Peter Becker wrote:Sorry if anyone feels that I hijacked something, but > > it's certainly not the way I think about it. For me newsgroups, mailing > > lists and some forums (those that allow threading) can have conversations > > that fork into multiple topics and I believe that's a Good Thing (tm). If > > that happens I prefer to rename the branch in which it happened, which does > > not imply that the original topic should be stopped at all, it is just > > meant to provide a cleaner separation of the different branches. If that > > annoys people here I'll stop. Maybe it's too Usenet for Web 2.0 :-) Somehow > > people seem to be used to a flat world view nowadays, which I believe is > > sad but I'm willing to accept that. Peter On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 05:15 > > -0800, Jason Waring wrote:Peter, why did you change the subject of this > > discussion? Dianne has raised an important issue, and we should respect her > > right to not have it be hijacked! On Feb 20, 6:25 pm, Peter > > Becker<[email protected]>wrote:[was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: An > > open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...] On > > Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:09 +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:On 19 Feb 2009, at > > 11:09, Peter Becker wrote:I'd be very happy for my daughter to pick up some > > scientific or IT- type work, but so far I haven't been too successful. > > Maybe it is because she's not even 3 yet :-) But she got her first computer > > around her second birthday -- not a Barbie one but an old Pentium II with > > KDE on it, icons scaled up until they are really big and all mouse buttons > > mapped to button 1. She likes watching me use it, but she doesn't want to > > interact with it herself.Check out tuxpaint. My young daughter found that > > quite entertaining for 10 minutes or so (which is a pretty good stretch for > > her). Plus, the stencil library comes with back-back (or "ducks" to you and > > me).http://www.tuxpaint.org/Comesintegrated in GCompris, which is quite > > nice, too. And we've been using Childsplay -- she likes the memory game and > > the jigsaw puzzles. > > GCompris:http://gcompris.net/Childsplay:http://www.schoolsplay.org/Onenice > > hack is to map .flv to a script running VLC in full-screen mode and close > > on finish. That allows dumping lots of Youtube videos onto the desktop with > > some Sesame Street, Wiggles or whatever else she currently likes. FLV > > playback pushes the poor old box to its limits, though -- it works, but not > > that well.Sorry, it's not Java, but it is good, free softwareTo bring it > > back on topic: I sometimes wonder what I could do with JavaFX for this type > > of application. I'm imagining something that's constantly in fullscreen > > (Tuxpaint can be annoying with that since it doesn't even allow > > maximizing). Menu screens should be nothing but a big grid of buttons, some > > leading to games, some to media playback. And they should be easy to > > operate with the keyboard, e.g. by using letters of the alphabet, displayed > > in some big font on each of the buttons and to be used without modifier > > keys. But not on that machine. :-) Peter
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