Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (61 mails)

[Bryen <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:52 -0500, Kevin Dupuy wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:07 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd love to know what people think of ggreeter. For those who don't
> > know, ggreeter is the window that is displayed the first time you log
> > in. And you generally don't see it anymore.
> >
> > To see it again, just launch 'ggreeter' in the run dialog or a terminal.
> >
> > I'd love to know what people think about it: is it useful? Should we
> > keep it? Should we remove it?
> >
> > My personal opinion is that we should remove it and display the relevant
> > information in some other places (in a help menu, eg). Note that
> > removing it also removes some "direct branding", but I wouldn't think
> > it's an issue.
>
> I think it's just not useful in it's current state. It's potentially
> helpful information and collection of links, but it's also information
> overload for new users who are just discovering their openSUSE desktop.
>
> I think a good idea would be to make it a tool to set up online updates,
> since that has to be done at the first login anyway. The branding
> sticks, and a important firstboot task gets done. Also, it could have a
> link to register the boxed edition for support.
>
> I have no idea if that could even be done through the greeter, but it
> just popped into my head, so I'd thought I'd try it out.
> -- 

The funny thing about greeters is that people do consider it
important/interesting but they'll get back to it later.  I do that here
on openSUSE, and on my XP Tablet laptops that I've had for several
years, I know there's lots of cool info about how to use Tablet
features, but I keep telling myself, I'll read it later.  As a
consequence, I never disable it, it keeps popping up at startup, but
never read for several years now.

People have an inherent tendency to try first, read later.  As such, I
would probably put it in Main Menu rather than as a pop up.  

Bryen

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