Idea #4505: Themes for children and old people

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Written by nivus the 13 Mar 08 at 16:12. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

It would be good if will be themes for children and old people with big visible fonts and icons in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

If you add somehow most simplified panel and and menu view for most important things like web browsing and gaming, we will not need think how to configure it.

Ubuntu is linux for human beings, it means for everybody. None of linux distributions has this feature, let Ubuntu be the first who has it.

Addition: 1. Big cursor with big clicable area setting
2. Disabled keyboard repeating? When one presses a key, reaction might not be good to enter only one letter - it's not useful.
3. Big fonts, big icons and widow decorations.
( 4. A RADICAL idea: home directory set as the desktop - $DESKTOP=~ - all files of old man or child are on desktop, and there is no need to click on 'home' icon)

Tags: accesibility child children old theme

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Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 16:22

Yes, a larger set of default wallpapers and themes would make a lot of sense.

The theme should be easily selected when adding new users and when installing.

Off course these things might be better as re-spins, since you might also want to change default software and settings for these different groups of people.

Perhaps an official ubuntu respin team, that analyzes user segments and suggests different default software, different themes (when applicable) ?

popi wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 17:54

edubuntu artwork for children themes...

Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 19:50

I don't like kids.

days_of_ruin wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 21:09

@Eldmannen:
+1 kids don't need to use the computer.
All the do is play crappy web games.

JhansonJr wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 02:52

KDE's default theme looks like it was made for preschoolers. My 5-year-old loves it.

probono wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 11:58

The brown is probably good for grandma, but the fonts could be a bit nicer and larger. I found UnDotum 13 to be a good default font.

Font sample:
http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/ead46e2fb23db8962d9c64ba1ea4cb32.png

Tina_Russell wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 07:38

The "Gartoon" theme (for kids) and the "high contrast" and "large print" themes are in the default installation, I believe. (If not, search the package manager, where you can find lots of cool themes. KDE has a nice "kids" theme too, not just the default theme, though that is pretty)

I wonder if we could contact the Nautilus devs and ask them if rendering the home folder as your desktop is a possibility. That would be cool.

I'm all for kids using computers, because I started out as one...

nivus wrote on the 7 Jul 08 at 06:04

You're right, there are those packages. But idea is in creating of default profiles for children and old people, so you won't need to install those packages separately and think how to configure it for child or old man - you gust have it from out of the box.

cosurgi wrote on the 21 Sep 08 at 15:32

Good idea, +1, there is a related idea with accessibility in mind - to prevent big mouse cursor from obscuring a tooltip (which appears below the cursor and is unreadable) http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12801/

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