Skinning a Linux Operating System

>Is this a very involved task,
depends on what are you aiming for ...

>where can I go to learn more about this
1. website of your distro
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/

2. Website of the session that you are using kde.org or gnome.org etc.

3. The documentation at your machine (man pages sample configurations etc)

4. some general linux documentation site e.g. tldp.org

HI Sorry for late reply,
I am interested in simplifying the whole interface to the extent that it would give the user very limited options.  You see my grandfather has alot of trouble using his computer one of the reasons is there are to many things that are made available to him and it confuses him. I would like to give him an environment where by if he wanted to use email he could just turn on the computer and click an email icon and it would open his email account. Or if he wanted to create a word document he could just click on an Icon and it would open up a text editor for him. If he wanted to turn the computer off there would be a big off button on the screen etc...
Do you know what I mean and what I would like to acheive...

P.s  thanks sunnycoder for your information so far, I aam about to go and check out the sites that you suggested before I allocate points...
Myles

P.s  thanks sunnycoder for your information so far, I aam about to go and check out the sites that you suggested before I allocate points...
Myles

I understand that now ... I do not think that should be a very difficult thing to do ...

However, in my opinion, for general use, windows is much more friendly as compared to linux but since your grandpa wont be carrying out any admin tasks, linux should be all right ...

take your time
explore >" Website of the session that you are using kde.org or gnome.org etc." < these sites first

This is all great advice guys thanks heaps for your input, ( as you can tell I don't have frequent access to the internet)

ramses0 I havn't had an opportunity to try out your advice yet but I would like to have a go soon, you sound like a pretty good person to want to help me like you have said, thanks alot  :)

I would like to take up your offer of emailing you, so if I get the chance to then I will
thanks again
myleseven2

I wanted to try and split the points to you both but E-E would not let me, I am not sure why... sorry about that so one of you had to get the points so I decided to give it to ramses0 because of his sincereness in wanting to help :)

>I wanted to try and split the points to you both but E-E would not let me,
https://www.experts-exchange.com/help/closing.jsp
If you ever need it future, the above link describes how to split