On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Well, I know Andreas Tille has mentioned his son uses mc, but as I recall, > he is older. I'm not sure about children in the 5 to 8 range. I never Yes, my son is 10 years old. I prefer mc because he sometimes plays DOS games and I teached him how to handle the saving files with Norton Commander. So mc is a tool he knows (at least the basics) and from my own very personal point of view (opinions may differ!) it is the best filemanager I can imagine. The internal editor is fine (might have the same features as pico/nano (??? i don't know both - I prefer vi when using pine) and has syntax highlighting features which make my son happy.
> used any such thing with my kids. It was always either bash or X. They > seem to be comfortable with both. R (6) has been a happy bash user since > he was about 3 when we only had a terminal and a largely inaccessible > parent's system (a P100 situated in our room, where the children did not > have free access to it ... this had more to do with space constraints at Are there any hidden places in your flat ;-)). > and to play a few bsdgames, the favourites being boggle and hangman. But I patched hangman to handle German Umlauts and build a word database from the German ispell file (hmm - unfortunately I have to do it also with the "new orthography" beast (:-(( grrr - I hate it!!) because my son has to learn this. Perhaps I will rewrite hangman to enable internationalisation but this might need some time. > I'd like to hear people's experiences with menu shells and children. So > far, we only list mc. There may be a niche there I am missing. To list only mc might be not so good, but personally I don't know an alternative. If you like one listed, do it. > Too bad. Are there any smaller alternatives? I heard that recently > konqueror has been ported to run on qt-embedded. Does anyone know about > this version? Is it decoupled from all of that KDE bloat? I havn't tried the whole KDE/Qt stuff but qt-embedded might be a good idea for poor hardware. Onybody testing it? Kind regards Andreas.