2009/5/25 Björn Persson : > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> A two year old (through kindergartener or first grader) is certainly >> capable of choosing a symbol that they've been taught to use from a >> table of other symbols. The real question is whether there's a time in >> a child's development when they can pick out an image that gets them >> into a program but can't pick out a two letter abbreviation to do the same. > > It's not really about getting into the program but rather configuring the > program. Gcompris uses the locale from the environment by default, like all > well-behaved programs do, but you can go to the configuration screen and > choose another locale if you want to. Then you need to exit Gcompris and > start it again before the change takes effect on the whole program, so I > doubt that the intention is that children should choose their locale every > time they start Gcompris. > > I haven't quite figured out why the developers felt a need to have a separate > locale setting just for Gcompris, but in those cases where it's needed I > think a parent or teacher will configure the program and then tell the > children not to touch the settings. Remember this is a learning software. You can have your system configured for french and let your child both play sometimes in french and otherwise learn english with GCompris. ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
