New User - First impressions

[dbclinton]

My suspicion is that most Edubuntu installs avoid Unity altogether and 
use Gnome-fallback which offers the traditional Applications/Education 
menu hierarchy. You will find that to be quite a bit deeper than just 
GCompris
For my two cents' worth, I can't for the life of understand why any 
regular user would want to trade the quick access of panel and desktop 
icons and regular menus for the over-sized Unity icons...
Regards,
David Clinton

On 13-03-22 09:32 AM, Allan Kelly wrote:
> Hi, I'm a long-time Linux user (over 10 years), father and IT 
> professional. My children, aged 6-12, are well used to using Linux. 
> I've just installed edubuntu 12.04.
>
> My immediate impression is "what is the difference between this and 
> ubuntu?" - to be honest I can't find any! I think a casual user would 
> give edubuntu about 5 minutes before deleting it. I know what I'm 
> doing, and I got pretty frustrated!
>
> Why? Well, the reason I installed it was to give my children an 
> environment filled with educational games and things they need for 
> school. Instead, they get the Unity bar filled with standard office 
> and system settings icons. Finding the educational programs is not 
> possible without knowing what you're looking for. All I could find is 
> gCompris (and which casual user would guess that!?), and that I found 
> by the totally unintuitive "Dash home" -> "Show all applications".
>
> I do think this could be easily fixed.
>
> 1. Put educational icons on the unity bar by default.
> 2. Provide a grouped lit of educational tools in the Application list.
>
> That seems easy, I hope it can be done for future releases.
>
> Cheers, al.
>
>

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