Help customising Fedora for my grandfather.

[Jon Atkinson]

I think that GNOME is nice and simple, and suitable for his needs. From 
my experience of KDE, it can present quite a lot of complexity to the 
user (the KDE control panel, for instance).

I don't want to get into a holy war, but KDE is out of the question :-)

--Jon

David C. Hart wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 10:34, Jon Atkinson wrote:
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>>1) Is there any way to remove the "Lock Screen" menu item. I've taught 
>>him to log off, but the menu items are just a little too close for 
>>comfort, and his hands shake quite badly, so removing this would be a 
>>huge plus. In addition, is it possible to put blank space (separators, I 
>>guess) in the main menu so that it's easier for him to click the items?
>>
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> Separators are easy to add in KDE. Just add blank items. 
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>>2) Is there any way to switch item selection in nautilus to 
>>single-click? 
> 
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> Again, that can be done with KDE.
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>>I've tried to put everything he might use on the desktop 
>>(evolution, mozilla, home folder), but like I said he has some quite bad 
>>motor problems in his hands so being able to single click on desktop 
>>items would be really great for him.
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> IBID
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