Hello Lisi!
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:38:04 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009 18:56:56 Florian Mickler wrote: > > What are the big Do's and Don'ts if you setup a linux desktop for > > senior beginners? > > I do the following: > > Set up the look of KDE to suit the particular difficulties of the > individual. (Large print, brightly coloured mouse pointer, > whatever.) Then "hide" everything that you don't want the individual > to alter or get flummoxed by. I find out what the individual wants to > do (usually email, letters, browse the web). > > Now first set up the desktop. > > Get rid of all the icons on the desktop and every applet and icon on > the panel. Now put icons for the applications that the individual > will want on the desktop. Rename them. E.g. "email", not "Mozilla > Thunderbird". > > Choose applications that have clear labels on every icon. > > OpenOffice.org is a good word processor for newbies because it can be > set up to have a few clearly labeled icons. (Get rid of any that > confuse rather than help.) Set it to go to your chosen directory by > default. > > Set up the browser to go to Google as the home page, and don't > shudder too much when the newbie can't distinguish between a browser > and a search engine. Let him/her put the web address into Google's > search bar. It will get him/her there and that is all that matters. > > Put an applet for lock/logout on the panel. I also add the clock, > showing date as well as time. > > Leave the system so that it is impossible to get at anything else via > the mouse. If you need to access anything else, do it via Alt F2 or > the command line. > > And read: <http://thelinuxbox.org/?p=21#more-21>, or listen to: > <http://www.archive.org/details/HampshireLinuxUserGroupDADDesktopAdaptedforDAD>, > > or even better, both. > > HTH > Lisi Thank you very much for your response! I think my mom will appreciate a not so confusing environment. I don't think it has to be so extreme, as she is well underway in genereal ( apart from the usual rescue-me!-calls I receive from time to time ) But the next big computer-education step i'm gonna take is my father! *g*. And that will be a tough nut. But i feel prepared now... One other thing you did'nt mention is to have a 'rescue'-remote-access possibility. Like an reverse-ssh tunnel through their nat, so that i can easily connect and have more efficient telephony-support. Thanks, Florian
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