Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-27 Thread Kevin Cole
That's sort of where I was thinking: Make it "harder" or at least something requiring more than a button push. I know when I was having troubles with not being able to use the mouse, I was able to get to a virtual terminal, drill down to the appropriate file and edit it to switch desktop environmen

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 26-06-2010 a las 00:01 -0400, Michael Stone escribió: > > Teachers demand a technological mean to solve a problem of discipline and > > computer literacy. > > Launch GNOME under a separate account with a quota and with limited or no sudo > access. This will cut out most of the mayhem, ther

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 26-06-2010 a las 13:42 +0100, Peter Robinson escribió: > > And presumably, one thing that could be done from Terminal is to > > install the control-panel section. > > yum install olpc-switch-desktop > > would do that for you. Yup! :) BTW, we've found a workable solution to the problem o

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Kevin Cole wrote: >> That's sort of where I was thinking: Make it "harder" or at least something >> requiring more than a button push. I know when I was having troubles with >> not being able to use the mous

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: >> Teachers demand a technological mean to solve a problem of discipline and >> computer literacy. > > Launch GNOME under a separate account with a quota and with limited or no sudo > access. This will cut out most of the mayhem, thereby buyin

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
> Teachers demand a technological mean to solve a problem of discipline and > computer literacy. Launch GNOME under a separate account with a quota and with limited or no sudo access. This will cut out most of the mayhem, thereby buying you time to work out a more integrated solution. Michael ___

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Kevin Cole wrote: > That's sort of where I was thinking: Make it "harder" or at least something > requiring more than a button push. I know when I was having troubles with > not being able to use the mouse, I was able to get to a virtual terminal, > drill down to

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-25 Thread Walter Bender
Raul had what I had thought was a nice compromise solution: to eliminate the control-panel section for switching. Then the switch would be a deliberate act from the Terminal, presumably by deliberate action by the student. Then any "damage" would be in the realm of violating the social contract bet

Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-25 Thread Bernie Innocenti
This morning we had a meeting with 15 formadores (teacher trainers) of Caacupé. After the initial excitement for a colorful and familiar desktop, the controversy around Gnome has been growing and growing. Many users and teachers love it and use it as their primary work environment, many others hat