New User - First impressions

[Allan Kelly]

Thanks David,

I personally agree on Unity - obviously that's a debate that's raged for a
couple of years now.

But if the icons are useful then it would be OK. Hence it would be really
beneficial if the Unity bar came with GCompris and others on it. I've
'pinned' GCompris, but are there others... ?

So... during install, I was told that various age-specific packages were
being installed. Great!
However, now I can't find out what those are. I've looked at the website,
I've tried quite hard.
Can anyone tell me what these packages are?!

Cheers, al.

On 22 March 2013 13:40, dbclinton <dbclin at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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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