Super simple links and launcher buttons and nothing else
For Windows:
- Have https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ installed.
- Install https://strawberryperl.com/ on your grandma's computer.
- Install https://git-scm.com/download/win (or some variant) too.
- Start the Strawberry Perl command line terminal, and then:
git clone https://github.com/ology/Grandma-Portal.git
cd Grandma-Portal
cpanm --installdeps .
- Copy the
config/default.yml
file, and name it for your grandma's Windows username, instead of "default". - Tweak the targets therein, to have her common actions, and then save the file. ***
- Then either:
- Add your
perl.exe
withrun-portal.pl
as argument, to your grandma's scheduled startup tasks and reboot her machine. - Or run
perl make-exe.pl
and generate an EXE program to run at will.
- Add your
- Voila!
*** To launch a Windows EXE from the portal app, use the path to the program you want to run, in the config file:
This path is assumed to be under C:\Program Files
. So for good ol' Win7 Solitaire installed at,
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Solitaire\Solitaire.exe
the config/your_grandma.yml
would have this buttons entry:
buttons:
- text: 'Solitaire'
fa: 'fa-diamond'
target: 'Microsoft Games\Solitaire\Solitaire'
The "fa" entry is for a fontawesome solid icon.