On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 22:05 +0100, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> Yeah, "where to put delete?" has been my issue all along. > > > > That button makes me nervous. > > b. destruction of another kid's work > (b) is a more general problem, solved by kids having their own > account (usually the case for schools, and in Linux?). But we > could add a 'nodelete' option (if it doesn't exist already -- I > can't be bothered to check).
For very small kids (ages 2 to 4,) having to log in may not be worth the effort to support it. Also, where computers are a limited resource, kids are numerous, and total time available to play is short, login time per child can be quite brief. In such an environment, having to log out and log in again takes away from the total time available to play. I have observed this pattern among my children at home (all five of whom have their own accounts, by the way, and range from ages 3 to 14,) when time is short, and another child wants to play on the computer: a child will voluntarily help a (usually younger) child out by sharing her account. I can imagine in a lab/classroom setting that gives children the freedom to do so, such sharing could be commonplace, or the computer might be set up without accounts altogether. This would be a good thing, and I think is something the design of Tux Paint should accomodate for. Let's not rule out certain kinds of use just because they don't fit our preconceptions. I think we should expect a certain amount of sharing of sessions, either informally between kids with their own accounts, or because the system is set up to be always logged in for all kids to use. Ben _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
