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

Wed Sep 29 21:41:48 CEST 2010

Le 29/09/2010 21:24, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+>
+> 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.
+
+Along with the Welcome Center idea, the one consisting in making a sort 
+of presentation or guided tour during the setup process is one I like a 
+lot.
+
+If you look back in Mandrake's history, this was in fact used by the 
+past. Look this setup capture of Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo : 
+http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Mandrake91setup.png
+
+
+Basically, there are two solutions :
+
+- Modify the advertisement images into ones that show the different 
+components, possibilities and advantages Mageia has to offer. BUT 
+currently, they would only be images and this won't help localization, 
+as people would have to duplicate the images. Easy (I did it for my 
+Moblin LiveCD), but not practical...
+
+- Looking at the Bamboo's DrakX, and believing the core of the DrakX 
+Installation Program has not fundamentally changed, I guess it is 
+possible to restore the ability to place texts on advertisements as you 
+can see on the screenshot. Translators would then just have to edit a 
+.po file to translate these texts in their own language.
+
+I was also thinking that a calm music (that can be turned off) during 
+the setup process would be nice to welcome the users who install the 
+system in graphical mode (offering a visible text mode install is 
+perhaps also needed, considering that I had many people asking me for 
+this).
+
+Without modifying the code itself too much, we would be able to revamp 
+the appearance of our good old DrakX as well. :)
+