On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:18 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:17 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I don't know if this is off topic, or even just wishful thinking, but > > has any sort of a welcome wizard been considered? > > > > GNU/Linux (and Fedora) is different to what a lot of new users will > > have been used to, and some sort of a welcome wizard which just points > > them in the right direction for common items, i.e. software installer > > etc might be useful. > > > > I have no idea if other people think this would be worthwhile, or how > > you might go about creating it! Thoughts? > > You're thinking of a local/fat application? Something that is kicked > off by the completion of firstboot? In other words, a firstboot module. These can be fairly rich in content. > What about putting that into the welcome page for the browser, and > auto-starting Firefox? Whatever that page looks or acts like, it could > have a nicely visible "New Users Start Here" widget that kicks off what > you are describing. I think firstboot is a better place for this. > It sounds like a confluence of tool and content/media creation, so it is > like an interactive tour. It is likely someone else will gleefully advocate pointing to non-free solutions, so I'll just put in my zwei Pfennig (in an equally gleeful way) to say, "not in FDP space." :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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