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[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

 I haven't heard about the Ubuntu Tour project earlier and I think it's
great initiative! It will be very helpful for new users and people migrating
from other operating systems. But this still doesn't solve the problem with
more default applications and how people should learn about the
ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

How about a simple application that shows some useful information and also
provides the user with a launcher for the Ubuntu Tour application? I made a
mockup of how this could look like:
http://i.imgur.com/pQkYj.jpg

What are your thoughts?

Alexander Lancey skrev 2011-05-13 18:03:

Sounds like what we're going for with the Ubuntu Tour

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tour

 On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Shane Fagan
<shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if
> we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. So
> when you open a fresh install it would ask you if you want the walk
> through and then do a series of animations showing how to open the
> dash, maybe the shortcut keys, how to use the indicators. So like do
> some nice arrows and large tooltips saying what to do. I think the
> idea of a welcome center is interesting but I think it wouldnt be as
> polished as a tutorial showing them how to use everything, although in
> the welcome center it would be really awesome to have a FAQ since lots
> of users do get stuck on the same things.
>
> --fagan
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist
> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi! I've been thinking about the discussion at UDS concerning the problem
> > with fitting extra content on only one CD. There has been some debating
> on
> > whether Ubuntu should stick to it's one CD policy or go with a DVD sized
> > installation image or multiple CD's. I myself haven't attented UDS I've
> just
> > read about it on blogs.
> >
> > Anyway, the problem seems to be that the 700 MB that one CD offers is
> very
> > limiting for the Ubuntu developers to be able to ship more default
> programs,
> > e.g. Unity 2D, though it's also good in forcing developers to create
> > lightweight programs. There are also negative sides to start with a DVD
> > sized image since everyone doesn't have access to a DVD-writer but almost
> > everyone with a computer has a CD-writer. And people have never been fans
> of
> > having to insert new CD's during installation so I have to proposed two
> > solutions to this problems and my favourite is the "Ubuntu Welcome
> Center".
> > Today Windows greets you with a "Welcome Center" on a fresh install and
> > gives the user some options to do some basic configurations with the
> system.
> > Hardcore users often just closes it and never opens it again but for
> first
> > time users I believe it could be very helpful. If Ubuntu created a
> Welcome
> > application with the options to download "Ubuntu Extras" - meaning a meta
> > package with more "default" programs which can't be fit in the "one
> > CD"-installation image. Together with an option to install the "Ubuntu
> > Restricted Extras" which many new users have a hard time figuring out it
> > even exists since it's not mentioned anywhere except for in forums and
> blog
> > posts. Maybe this can be grouped with some basic configuration options
> like
> > launchers for the user settings and appearance settings applications.
> > The other solution I propose which shouldn't really be discussed in
> Ayatana
> > is to offer one CD-installation image for default Ubuntu, and one
> DVD-image
> > for "Ubuntu Extended" which could also be installed through the Software
> > Center or the "welcome center".
> > What do you guys think about the "Welcome Center" idea?
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