Edubuntu Artwork for Edubuntu 6.04 - Dapper Drake

[David Trask]

Oli,

You probably don't remember me, but we met at UBZ....I was with the LTSP
team.  I am a teacher of grades  kindergarten through grade 8 in the US. 
(ages 5 - 14 years).  We use K12LTSP in our school and have been for about
4 years.  I currently run Edubuntu on my own laptop and am testing it for
deployment next fall.  The current icon set is fine for younger kids, but
a little too candy-like for older students.  I find the Crystal icons
http://www.crystalgnome.org/ to be a good choice for a "middle-ground" for
older students.  As for the wallpaper....I 'm not a big fan of the current
default wallpaper.  It has a tendency to mke Edubuntu seem like a toy as
opposed to an OS.  (that's just my opinion...sorry)  I just saw the recent
chalkboard one from Jonathan Carter.....I like it!  Anyway...that's my 2
cents....pence....rubles...francs...deutchmarks....whatever  ;-)



Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> on Sun Nov 13 2005 at 09:00 +0000 wrote:
>hi,
>On So, 2005-11-13 at 15:02 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>> Hi Edubuntu team!
>> 
>> We need to get cracking on a high-quality default theme for Edubuntu.
>> 
>nope, we'll need more than one.
>at ubz one of the most upcoming questions was what we'll do about the
>themeing in dapper...
>
>during several discussions we came to the conclusion that we should have
>at least two (rather three) different choices...
>
>what i'd like to do with the artwork package is the following:
>
> * add all graphical and theme elements for all choices and
>   install them by default
> * add a debconf question which flavor you want to use, so 
>   a sudo dpkg-reconfigure edubuntu-artwork will make it possible
>   to easily select between lower, mid and higher grade artwork.
> * ask the above debconf question on install to make sure you dont 
>   have to reconfigure anything (you should already know your target
>   audience, right ?).
>
>i think for the lower grades we can go with what we have, people seem to
>like it, the only objection i've heard was about the wallpaper, so lets
>change this one, but keep the rest for lower grades.
>
>for mid grade i dont know what to do, lets find something beautiful here
>for teenagers...probably a wallpaper/splash change would be enough.
>
>for higher grades i'd like to suggest to change to the tango icon theme,
>some more "serious" wallpaper and splash screen...
>
>for window frames and gtk themes we should stay with ubuntu as we did in
>the breezy release...
>
>any opinions ?
>
>ciao	
>	oli
>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100