Help customising Fedora for my grandfather.

[Jon Atkinson]

Hi,

For Christmas this year, I bought my grandfather (85 years young) a 
second hand computer. It's a 1gHz/128mb/20G/Nvidia Geforce2 system, and 
I decided to put Fedora on it.

My reasons for this are that I can lock down this box better than I can 
a Windows box, no threat from email viruses, pop up blocking in Mozilla 
and the fact that I can log in from university and fix his computer if 
anything goes wrong.

However, I would like to pick everyone's brain about a few things:

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?

2) Is there any way to switch item selection in nautilus to 
single-click? 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.

3) He's accessing the internet with a 56K modem, which is ideal for his 
needs. Can anyone suggest a dialer application which is nice and simple 
for him to use. Currently he's using the 'Network Device Control' menu 
option, but basically there's just too much complexity and too many 
points of possible failure for me to be comfortable with him using it. 
I've used wvdial in the past, and it was nice and simple, and a quick 
google doesn't turn up and GTK frontends. The ability to remind him that 
he's still connected if the connection is idle for a certain amount of 
time would be a bonus also.

Thanks (I ramble a little), and if anyone has any other ideas/advice in 
this area it would be much appreciated.

--Jon Atkinson