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

Just want to add that some colors may look a bit off since my monitor is not
color calibrated and I saw it one another monitor recently and it looked
kinda bad. So I hope you can imagine the end result anyway.

2011/5/14 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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