A PC for my grandchildren

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi!

On 27/04/2012 21:24, Adrie Taniwidjaja wrote:
> Just to add what Mike has been explained .....
>
> Previously (cmiiw) Edubuntu have Net Nanny for parental control in the
> default repository so it was built in in the default instalation, but I
> don't know why this feature disapear now.

I've been meaning to reply to the original mail properly, but it's a 
busy week :)

Regarding Nanny, we had to remove it because it wasn't working anymore. 
Gnome changed the way that settings are applied (and some of the old 
settings weren't applicable anymore). So this meant that setting things 
in Nanny just didn't apply anymore.

You could still set some of the lockdown features manually in 
gconf-editor (end dconf-editor), at least in Gnome 3's fallback session 
you have to press alt while modifying panel layouts, this makes it 
somewhat harder for kids to accidentally break their desktop layout 
(which tends to happen in the older versions of gnome when it's not 
locked down).

-Jonathan