I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a desktop/window manager I was happy with and that I was willing to turn her loose in.
I wanted something minimal but that would still support desktop icons. I didn't want a panel. I wanted a very fast window manager and file manager. And I wanted to make it as kidproof as possible. Aren't you just dying to know what I've got her using? I'm using ROX as her session manager and desktop. I run it using the pinboard (for desktop icons) but not the panel. I put icons to her favorite apps on the desktop. The file manager is obviously ROX--super fast. And the window manager is Oroborus (http://www.dreamind.de/oroborus.shtml)--very lightweight and easy to configure. The main reason I chose Oroborus was because it doesn't have any root menu, so clicking on the desktop does not bring up a menu of apps and options that I'd have to edit out by hand. Instead, clicking on the desktop gives a harmless ROX dialog. You can see a screenshot here: http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2002_11_26_21_06_50 . It shows the icons and a ROX-Filer inside the Oroborus window manager. I can still do admin stuff if need be by opening her home directory in ROX; from there I can launch xterm. I'm pretty confident that she will not be able to mess anything up, but I'll let you know once we do some more testing! Todd
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