DEK Project Home page

<table width=100% border=0> <tr> <td width=155 bgcolor=#add8e6 valign=top> <center> <br> <a href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=34859" width="88" height="31" border=0 alt="SourceForge Logo"></a> <br> <br> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dek/" target="_top">Project Page</a> <br> <br> <a href="http://dek.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/dek.cgi/Main.tcl?Frame=_top" target="_top">Home</a> <br> <a href="http://dek.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/dek.cgi/About.tcl?Frame=_top" target="_top">About</a> <br> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34859&release_id=51690" target="_blank">Download Overview Document</a> <br> <br> <a href="http://dek.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/dek.cgi?Frame=_top" target="_top">Normal (Framed)</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </center> </td> <td valign=top> <center> <h1>Welcome to the DEK (Desktop Environment for Kids) project home page</h1> </center> <p>DEK (Desktop Environment for Kids) is a project to bring the functionallity of <a href="http://www.edmark.com/prod/kdfe/" target="_top">Edmark's KidDesk Family Edition</a> to the Linux (and UNIX in general) world. <a href="http://www.edmark.com/prod/kdfe/" target="_top">Edmark's KidDesk Family Edition</a> is presently available for MS-Windows and MacOS. It is an application that does the following:</p> <ul> <li>Provides a secure way for children to use the family computer. The kids only have access to their programs and folders (ala chroot). <li>Provides a set of kid-friendly "Desks"--not compter desktops, but puctures of actual desks, complete with the common things one would have on a desk: pencil holder, calendar, calculator, notepad, clock, telephone w/ answering machine, lamp, address book, mailbox, picture frame w/name plate. On the desk's blotter are icons for the kid's applications. The desk accessories are all "bound" to built-in applications (and can be bound to other applications). </ul> <p>I bought <a href="http://www.edmark.com/prod/kdfe/" target="_top">Edmark's KidDesk Family Edition</a> for my niece -- my sister has a old Mac IIci -- when she was about 5 years old (she is now 10). My niece loves this program.</p> <p>This program would also be great in a classroom environment as well as in a home environment. Given the high cost of MS-Windows (and the recent <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/missions/gates1/index.html" target="_top">problems</a> various <a href="http://www.pcsforkids.org/" target="_top">charities</a> are having with <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/" target="_top">Microsoft</a>), this would be good package to install on Linux boxes for use by underprividged kids.</p> <center> <table> <tr> <td><a href="http://tcl.sourceforge.net/"><img src="/images/PWRD75.png" align=TOP border=0 alt="Powered By Tcl Logo"></a></td> <td> <FONT SIZE=-3> Content and CGI Scripts (powered by Tcl) Copyright © 2001 Robert Heller. Comments about this site or the scripts that power it should be sent to <a href="mailto:rheller@users.sourceforge.net">Robert Heller</a>. </FONT> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table>