KidsPlay

KidsPlay is at the moment a draft for a whole new KDE program oriented towards young children. Here are all the ideas Danny has for such a program:

• use Get Hot New Stuff to download new images, activities, etc
• have individual child stats, and also whole class statistics (kchart?)
• have "admin" password for important editing/configuration tasks
• auto logout of users, configurable in settings
• first time wizard (run mode "single user, many users, class mode", set admin password, add users, ask to download new data, etc)
• allow locking of certain tasks, difficulty levels
• use "locale" settings for certain activities, eg. money exercises - if in EU, use Euro's, US = Dollars
• load quiz, flashkard, etc. formats into kidsplay (with native-looking display of such formats)
• if KParts can be used in a "non-ugly" way, perhaps use KParts of other apps (kgeography, etc)?

The start screen could look like this:

pics/start.png KidsPlay - start

The menu could look like this:

pics/menu.png KidsPlay - menu

The user could log in from that screen:

pics/user.png KidsPlay - user login

If you are interested to get involved in coding such a program, please subscribe to the kdeedu mailing list and join the fun!

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Author: Anne-Marie Mahfouf

Last update: 2008-01-11