Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Multiple users?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:13:15PM -0500, Ann Reigle wrote:
> I'd like to know how to have multiple users to Tuxpaint, so that the slide show could be only the work done by one specific student.  
> As a new user to this program, I'm liking it far better than old faithful KidPix, but really miss the ability to have a slide show from just one student's work.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give, Ann Reigle

Hi Ann.  By default, Tux Paint should adhere to whatever user accounting
your computers are using.  In other words, if each student logs in
separately, their pictures should end up getting stored in their
'home directory'.

For example, on Windows XP, the pictures get stored in:
  C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\TuxPaint\saved

In Vista:
  C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\TuxPaint\saved

And on Mac OS X:
  /Users/USERNAME/Library/Applicaton Support/TuxPaint/saved/

In each example above, you'd replace "USERNAME" with the name of the user.


Now, if all of your students are accessing Tux Paint from the same account
on the computer, you'd need to tell Tux Paint to specifically save in
different folders, depending on who's using the system.

I've never used KidPix, so I'm not sure how it did it, but a number of
years ago I created a simple little 'front-end' to Tux Paint that provided
a list of items that a user choses from.  It then launches Tux Paint for them.
Depending on the choice, it tells Tux Paint to load and save files from
a different folder.  (It just invokes Tux Paint with the "--savedir"
command-line option.)

It's available for Linux (KDE 3.5) and Windows (requires Python).
You can learn about it and download it from here:

ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/savedir/

Let me know whether that helps in any way!

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-bill!
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