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David Trask schreef:
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<pre wrap="">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crystalgnome.org/">http://www.crystalgnome.org/</a> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com"><ogra@ubuntu.com></a> on Sun Nov 13 2005 at 09:00 +0000 wrote:
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<pre wrap="">hi,
On So, 2005-11-13 at 15:02 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Edubuntu team!
We need to get cracking on a high-quality default theme for Edubuntu.
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<pre wrap="">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org</a>
(207)923-3100
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It's all Euro's now, 'cept for the pence and the rubles. :-)<br>
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Willem<br>
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