Re: Job: simplified creation of Debian Jr. accounts

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:17:11AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:26:21 +0100
> "C. Gatzemeier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > What are the specific needs?
> > 
> > Maybe desktop-profiles can help you with user/group specific settings, 
> > pam-group with default hardware groups memberships etc.
> > 
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo
> 
> While that's good stuff and may come in handy, no, I was thinking
> merely of providing a "graduated" set of initial configurations for
> desktops for each of a few different age ranges, i.e. choice of default
> window manager, reliance more on icons or text to navigate the desktop,
> and the degree to which the underlying system is "exposed" to the
> user.  At one end of the spectrum we have the very young "keyboard
> banger" type of user who needs a very visual, "activity center" type of
> desktop experience where they are free to randomly press keys to make
> interesting things happen without causing damage that is a hassle to
> fix, and at the other end are kids who have mastered the keyboard and
> mouse, know how to read, and pretty much could use any desktop
> environment "out of the box" with minimal guidance.  Between these
> extremes are children of varying expertise with the mouse and keyboard
> who need their desktop environments configured in such a way as to
> allow them the maximum amount of freedom with a minimum amount of
> frustration.

this is the best description I've seen so far in this thread.

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