Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (33 mails)

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
> 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.

The first thing I do is to change it to iGoogle as well. We could 
definitely use a more useful start page with search and more resources.

> Ok, we have that greeter at the first boot, but I think most users
> will instantly click close and that's it :)

There's been discussion of getting rid of the greeter, and I think the 
idea to use the start page to replace the greeter might be a good one.

I've opened a bug here to track this:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405773

Note that I'm not against people changing the start page -- a lot of new 
users will probably have a start page that they like using already (I'd 
keep using iGoogle because I have it personalized with stuff I use 
frequently... but we can make it a more useful default for users who 
don't have a preference.

Thanks for bringing this up, Rupert. :-)

Best,

Zonker
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager
http://zonker.opensuse.org/
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