Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (509 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am one of the multitude that is conditioned to simply close all the
startup clutter.  I rarely ever read the SUSE Greeter... I think I
looked at it once... a couple of years ago.  now it's an automatic
click to close.  I am not the only one.  This is essentially the exact
same knee-jerk reaction I see from most new users I help get started
with openSUSE.  The desktop starts up and it's click to close
everything so they can "see" what they've got in this new Linux thing.


> something a little more like the openSUSE.org homepage [
> http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/greeterIdea.png ]. Each Discover|Support|Create
> section could drill down into more detailed information, or perhaps
> different additional information could be displayed below depending on
> what the mouse hovered over.

This is a fantastic example of what the greeter needs to be.  Simple,
clear and something that everyone will look at... if only briefly...
which is all it takes to spark interest.  A box with a few hundred
words is generally ignored.  The simple graphic is so much more
effective (a pain to translate though).

OK, late now... but there's always 10.4 I guess. :-)

C.
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