Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (33 mails)

["Rupert Horstkötter" <rhorstkoetter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

What do you do when starting firefox for the first time after a fresh
installation of openSUSE 11.0? I for myself change the homepage to
something else (google). I think that the default startpage
http://www.opensuse.org isn't very useful for the average user in
everyday's use. I thought about implementing something like
http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04 for openSUSE 11.1 - on the one hand this
page offers the ability to search the web - IMO the most commonly used
homepages (google, yahoo or whatever) nowadays, on the other hand it's
a great way to promote openSUSE especially to new users not that
familiar with the openSUSE services.
Ok, we have that greeter at the first boot, but I think most users
will instantly click close and that's it :)
With such a startpage in the webbrowser we'd have the ability to raise
the attention to the wiki, forums, OBS, bugzilla, the most common IRC
support channels etc etc. Maybe a brief overview over the openSUSE
project would be possible and last but definitely not least, we could
extend the google search engine with a custom search for all openSUSE
services - in that way that the user could click "search openSUSE" or
"search the web". Most likely there are even more possibilities I
cannot imagine yet. Unfortunately I haven't the required programming
skills to create such a website, but I think there'll be others
creating it with few effort. I'm in a serious hope that new users will
keep this startpage at least longer as the current one.

What do you think about it?

Best,
Rupert

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