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

Wed Sep 29 21:24:57 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 03:03:05, Andre Machado a écrit :
+> 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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+
+This is a nice idea
+
+Another moment to give information is when installing.  Currently there are 
+several images for promoting Mandriva (they are available on any mirrors, for 
+example here : 
+<ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2010.1/i586/install/extra/advertising/> 
+)
+The time during installation could be used to give first informations so these 
+images are to be modified. Another point is there are only in English. I don't 
+know if it's possible to have localised images, i would be nice (but would 
+take several place, around 2,2 MB).
+
+So i think there is also a need to rework these images so i would be a first 
+introduction to Mageia.
+
+
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+Olivier Méjean
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