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[cmaglothin <cmaglothin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have seen this brought up before here, but never has anyone mentioned the
way that Android does it. Android uses a simple widget that throws up little
helpful hints in a non intrusive way of getting you started.


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Bassett <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the
> archives of this mailing list, but...
>
> There are many features of Unity (and also Gnome-shell) that are
> different from previous desktops and in that sense non-obvious.
>
> Would it make sense to have a 'tips' application running, which would:
>
> 1) at startup, and then at some non-irritating interval throw up an OSD
> notification with some tip about Unity UI shortcuts (or similar
> features) -- an "inbox" of shown tips could be made available via the
> messaging indicator menu (or maybe there is a better place for this?)
>
> 2) observe the users behaviour and use some simple heuristics to decide
> on a tip that could be displayed (e.g. the 15th time that a user hits
> the top panel to activate a menu, throw up a tip about using F10 or Alt
> to activate menus, and similar)
>
> 3) should also include tips about finding further help (also in the tips
> 'inbox')
>
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