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

Wed Sep 29 22:20:29 CEST 2010

2010/9/29 Gustavo Giampaoli <giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com>:
+> I found both aproaches really atractive and useful.
+>
+> Kaptan looks very intuitive, easy and centralize most (if not all) the
+> most common and basic settings that a person with basic knowledge
+> could need after the first boot.
+>
+> However, wobo's aproach is also important. What happends if
+> Kaptan-like-tool hangs in the first boot and close? That's where info
+> page will be really really useful. This is an extreme example, but I
+> think I presents the idea well. A newbie will be almost "naked and
+> screaming" without to know where to go for help.
+>
+> But, if Kaptan-like-tool doesn't hang and works fine, it's always
+> important to let people know where they have to go if anything goes
+> wrong or where to meet other user. You never know when a user could
+> become an important contributor.
+>
+> Cheers!
+>
+>
+>
+> Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980)
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+
+Main problem with Kaptan is that being a KDE tool. Otherwise, freezing
+on first boot should not a problem. We can set a default configuration
+for this purpose and user changes this configuration according to
+his/her taste via Kaptan. So if it s***ks on first screen then nothing
+to worry about. Also, an information page can be implemented as a
+first tab to Kaptan like i see in mockups in this thread. I' m not a
+programmer but i think implementing those should be easy. Main problem
+is like i said, porting Kaptan to GTK code.
+