Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (67 mails)

[Druid <marcio.ferreira@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > No reason behind it as we currently just created a first version of the
> > susegreeter. This new susegreeter will have an icon on the desktop and
> > bridges the distribution with the project. First version will be included to
> > Alpha 7 - see here a preview: http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/greeter.png

Good to see the icon thing is there, as the greeter is a thing that
most users will close and tell it to never pop-up again, so an icon
where the user would be able to launche whenever he wants is really
more suitable.

Idealistic, the user should have easy access to irc, forum, wiki, etc
of opensuse, and this is the oportunity to make it.

In the irc part, konversation already points to #suse, so we have
already seen lots of new users in the channel. its ok. We have thought
in ways of managing the thing.


> OK, fine with me, s/one-click/easy access/
>
> > But correct, I'm not very much in favor putting an extra icon for
> > the "One-click to IRC" on the dekstop. Reasons for that:
> > - we try to minimize the number of icons on the desktop

Not one icon just to launch irc, but one link in the greeter maybe?

Please check these two mockups done some time ago:
http://giannaros.org/suse/SupportOptions/
http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/supportopts.png

They represent the idea of most of the irc people think it should be
desgined. Hope it gives more ideas for all.

> > - simple icon without further explanation connecting direct to the server
> > might cause problems

could have a small explanation close to the icon?

> > - bear in mind we count serveral thousand installations a day and would 
> > invite
> > pretty many of them to #suse - could become crowded, couldn't it?
>
> Hardly would be that crowded. It's not like it's auto-connecting to
> #suse on login ;)

We have been thinking about that it's been a while and we have
workarounds and methods for those and other problems. Which I think we
will discuss in the irc meeting heh

Best regards

Marcio
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Druid
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