On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brent Bloxam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris wrote: > > The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, >> a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that >> doesn't require learning a character command set would be the >> target. >> > > > Hi Chris, > > Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based on > GTK+ and is available in the ports tree and as a package (from the machine > specs, I assume you'll be installing packages). The theme you use for it > will impact performance as well, but the default should be fine. > > For text-editing you can try Mousepad ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/) and Thunar ( > http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/) for file management > > I agree xfce is a good choice. Another thing you may wish to consider is a IDE to develop in. As someone already mentioned, learning vi is invaluable, but sometimes a gui editor is better suited to the task. My newest favorite is Netbeans. It's compatible with a host of different programming and markup languages including html. This will give you a nice gui with syntax highlighting and many other useful features. Most could also be found on vi/vim, but I suspect your students will have an easier time on Netbeans. It wouldn't be snappy on the hardware you mentioned but should be useable. Hopefully you have a better system to build packages on. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
