[aklug] Fwd: Re: Your thoughts -- simple GUI designs

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     From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
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  Subject: Re: [aklug] Your thoughts -- simple GUI designs
       To: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

> I was musing on something today, and was curious about your thoughts...
> (I'm probably going to get banned from this list for all the unimportant
> e-mails I keep sending).
> I was looking at some screen shots of the eee pc, such as this one:
> http://www.featuredsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/snapshot1.png
> I also read an article a while ago (won't bother referencing it) that
> indicated that some people are attracted to the Linux GUIs of the
> mini-notebook and 'netbooks' because of their simple GUI, and even that
> Windows is "too complex" for some people.
> Me, I'm a big KDE fan (no nasty comments about that, please). I like
> many of its complexities.
> Many major distributions have several DE versions of their distro; for
> example, Ubuntu has Kubuntu and Fluxbuntu. Maybe these distributions
> should also consider putting out versions that use a really simple,
> 'dummy-style' GUI; they could be similar to that in the screen shot
> above, with tabs like 'work' and 'play', and big buttons like 'e-mail'
> and 'web-browsing'.
> And when I say simple, I don't necessarily mean minimalistic (like
> Fluxbuntu, where you can do a lot, but it takes a while to get things
> installed). But rather, simple in the senses of 'locked-down' and
> 'obvious' ease of use.
> Again, I wouldn't want to use a DE like that, but I can see how it might
> attract a lot of non-technical people to Linux.
>
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Chris,

There are ways to do this, kiosk mode comes to mind.

http://dot.kde.org/997748764/

There are probably others as well.

Mike B.

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