Re: [kidsUI] About me

[Alfredo Kengi Kojima <kojima@inf.ufrgs.br>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Doug Loss wrote:

> I'd like to see this mailing list discuss the needs of children in a
> computer interface, the ways children approach computers and how they
> differ from the ways adults do, and methods to address these needs. 
> Rather than see the members of this list design a window manager,
> desktop environment, or application software as a new start, I'd like
> to see us come up with a fairly comprehensive set of guidelines that
> can be used by anyone working on any of the above types of projects to
> make kid-oriented versions, themes, or variants of their work.  So we
> might see GNOMEKids, KidsDE, KidsWindowmaker, etc., coming from our
> design recommendations but not necessarily being all our own code.
>

I agree with you that a set of recommednations would be
a better result from this group, but having at least one
project (an application, as opposed to something like
a window manager or a desktop environment) to work on
would be good, as we would have something to experiment
ideas with and test concepts with real children.

--
Alfredo