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Has anyone tried or know of a project that is working to
simplify the Gnome interface for educational purposes. I posted a similar
quesiton to the KDE Edu group and I got laughed at I feel.
Here is the situation.
We are working on building a distribution that will be used in
educational groups. K-12 mostly it will be packed with various educational
applications, games, administration packages . We are wanting a very simple
interface with as much point and click as possible. We are wanting to run Gnome
in a kiosk kinda mode that will disable scripting access, shell ALT-F2 kinda
things. The reasons behind this is, we feel that a kid will break what they can
break without meaning to. Also we are wanting them to have a very smooth
transition from Windows to Linux (so school systems can avoid licensing issues)
The goal is not so much as to teach children Linux but to get Linux into the
school systems with minimal fuss (they can later learn the workings of Linux
once its in the school ) but we know in order to get Linux into the schools it
has to be very easy to use. Most schools are administered by a teacher or
something of this nature we want it easy to do. For more information reply to
this with questions so I can answer them
Matt Jezorek
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