[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

Wed Sep 29 03:13:04 CEST 2010

Andre,
+
+This a great idea.
+
+Júnior
+
+2010/9/28 Andre Machado <afmachado at dcemail.com>
+
+> We know that many Windows users refuse to migrate to GNU / Linux because of
+> the
+> differences between these two environments. A critical point is the
+> difference
+> between the programs used to perform common tasks.
+>
+> Thinking about it, I had the idea of creating a Mageia Welcome Center. What
+> is
+> this? Basically, when Mageia is installed and user will do his first login
+> - or
+> when a new user is created and will do your first login, after loading the
+> desktop environment, a window like the one I drew below will appear:
+>
+> http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/925/mageiawelcome.png
+>
+> This is a simple idea: this window will show friendly descriptions to
+> commom
+> tasks besides icons of programs used to perform them. So the user will
+> associate
+> the program that needs to use the task that needs doing. When user clicks
+> icon
+> or text, the associated program will be launched.
+>
+> Of course, future we can disable the icons of programs that are not
+> installed or
+> provide a way to add more options.
+>
+> This certainly is a small and easy-to-do program that can be developed in
+> minutes and hides a great easter egg ;)
+>
+> PS: I have the original SVG if someone is interested.
+>
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