P.S. You are also welcome to put your UI of choice on the system in any case; this is an open platform.
dear friend, the discussion isnt about personal choice. The discussion is about do we have a better alternate that can be integrated by default in XO?
Conventional desktops are fully usable by kids only after they are able to read decently well (at least in my experience). This should hardly be surprising, as they were designed for adult developed world office workers.
yes. true! so with XO with browser, word processor, chat etc. I thought XO is suppose to be a "STUDY TOOL" right? In my country, kids in grade 6 or earlier (10~11 year old) would learn to code in GW-BASIC, learn MSWORD and learn some basic skills of computers, as well as solve problems of algebra and geometry. Once they learn they wont have same problem. And after they LEARN what is the flexible choice? Other GUI managers or the one currently with XO?
Having dialog boxes of text they can't read pop up in windows that get lost *really* sucks, when you are a parent (or kid). So Sugar is getting to a position where in fact for young children, once we have the performance nailed, I think it will be much better for those kids, particularly on our relatively physically small screen.
OLPC can still choose a desktop (slightly locked by default, but that can be unlocked) with ICONS and pictures (minus pop-ups and text) in desktop. Unlike any new skills children will have to LEARN to use stuffs. we should assume children will grow and learn new skills faster. We should also ask questions to ourselves is XO designed to be a STUDY TOOL or a PLAYING-TOOL for children. If its a study tool.... we should expect children to read and write with the help of it. And for reading, writing, editing, browsing, connecting and coleraborating everyone will go through facing pop-up and texts online or offline. kids arent sooooo amature as a older parent would really think they are ;) really..... --- check this news: According to Nielsen/Net Ratings Inc., an Internet research company, the number of online users in the 2-to-11 age group rose 19 percent to 15.1 million in December 2006, from 12.6 million in December 2002. --- and XO will be in implimentation phase by late 2008 and the number is growing. Also note the fact those "15.1 million" children used the same desktop managers ( so be it windows, KDE/GNOME, or MAC) and went through the learning phase of pop-up and message dialog to be online. See it isnt THAT hard for many as we'd assume it would be... or is it? -bipin _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
