http://images.howtoforge.com/images/the_perfect_desktop_linux_mint_7_gloria/...
I saw this and thought that it would also be a nice idea to have in fedora, like a welcome screen "Wellcome to Fedora" or something similar... What are your thoughts on this?
2009/5/29 Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic@gmail.com:
http://images.howtoforge.com/images/the_perfect_desktop_linux_mint_7_gloria/...
I saw this and thought that it would also be a nice idea to have in fedora, like a welcome screen "Wellcome to Fedora" or something similar... What are your thoughts on this?
That Mint is more ugly than i thought ;) j/k
Not a bad idea.
If i'm right (correct me otherwise) there used to be a "Welcome... " in the early fedora days (fedora core 1? 2 or 3?) or perhaps even the last few redhat releases (redhat 8 or 9) which had that. I just don't quite remember it...
I personally wouldn't be in favor of another. When you install fedora now you have some kind of fullscreen welcome. That should be enough. Doing more is just spamming the user with welcome screens.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic@gmail.com wrote:
http://images.howtoforge.com/images/the_perfect_desktop_linux_mint_7_gloria/...
I saw this and thought that it would also be a nice idea to have in fedora, like a welcome screen "Wellcome to Fedora" or something similar... What are your thoughts on this?
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Valent Turkovic wrote:
I saw this and thought that it would also be a nice idea
I like the current Plymouth theme with the white circle that gradually fills in and them 'pops out' with the fedora infinity F. It looks really cool. Isn't that a nice welcome? It is definitely very elegant.
If you edit /etc/motd and put "Welcome to Fedora" into it, it will say that to you when you do a text login.
Well, from my point of view, the OP doesn't meant to have a "Welcome to Fedora" text alone. I think he meant more likely the other stuff. Like, clickable: "Discover that" , "Get online help here" , "Find information about whatever there".
And thats not a bad idea. At least it is very new-user-friendly.
On 05/31/2009 01:31 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, from my point of view, the OP doesn't meant to have a "Welcome to Fedora" text alone. I think he meant more likely the other stuff. Like, clickable: "Discover that" , "Get online help here" , "Find information about whatever there".
And thats not a bad idea. At least it is very new-user-friendly.
It has been suggested before and accepted that as a useful idea. Someone needs to take the next step and implement it.
Rahul
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 05/31/2009 01:31 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, from my point of view, the OP doesn't meant to have a "Welcome to Fedora" text alone. I think he meant more likely the other stuff. Like, clickable: "Discover that" , "Get online help here" , "Find information about whatever there".
And thats not a bad idea. At least it is very new-user-friendly.
It has been suggested before and accepted that as a useful idea. Someone needs to take the next step and implement it.
Which tools would you recommend somebody uses to make this welcome screen?
Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
maybe a trivial pygtk script ?
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+1
I was just about to suggest that. And, if alot of the text items are not embedded directly (i.e. loaded from /usr/share/welcome/ or something) they can be made multi-lingual, changed easily on each release, and even changed by re-spins.
On 05/31/2009 05:17 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/31/2009 01:31 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, from my point of view, the OP doesn't meant to have a "Welcome to Fedora" text alone. I think he meant more likely the other stuff. Like, clickable: "Discover that" , "Get online help here" , "Find information about whatever there".
And thats not a bad idea. At least it is very new-user-friendly.
It has been suggested before and accepted that as a useful idea. Someone needs to take the next step and implement it.
Which tools would you recommend somebody uses to make this welcome screen?
It would depend on the desktop you are targeting. PyGTK would be trivial for GNOME and QT for KDE. Xfce has a tips and tricks app that could be modified. It is also likely that whatever Mint is using already has the source code available.
Rahul
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic@gmail.com wrote:
Which tools would you recommend somebody uses to make this welcome screen?
You should probably talk to the people who craft the Live Desktop image and the harddrive install that results from it. If the point of this is to target new users with little to no prior Fedora experience, then it will need to be incorporated into the live desktop experience as a priority. I wouldn't shoot for trying to figure out how to make it work everywhere for all possible install scenarios on the first attempt. Craft something that works for the Live Desktop image for F12, and then take what you learn from that and build something better for F13.
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