Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 07.12.2010 00:43, schrieb Nelson Marques:

> 'browser' is most likely one of the most universal words in our
> society. I haven't checked years of background information, so feel
> free to blame if somehow this was discussed/approached in the past.
> To be short and objective... when I installed my system, I ended up by
> bringing up Firefox. I took a minute to look at it and I got a Firefox
> beta promo page and openSUSE.org tab. Both ways.... this 2 pages for
> me (most likely for a lot of people out there) do not require much
> interaction from the user and force him to go to the preferences and
> change home page.
> Anyway we could add like 'Ubuntu' does a search engine (like the evil
> one) on the start page and some cool links like:
>
>  * openSUSE > the generic page that exists already on another tab.
>  * openSUSE Forums > kinda interesting and somehow a more human thing
> for new comers.
>  * (Online) Documentation > Documentation sites.
>  * openSUSE Ambassadors > I think this one is _IMPORTANT_.  High visibility.
>
> If the browser initial page is useful... example: very used search
> engine. Many won't change it, just by lazyness and because it serves
> them... and we keep high visibility with our users.

Please check this thread:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2010-01/msg00003.html

Last time I proposed something like that I got insulted.
But I'm all for it to change the default if someone comes up with a nice
start page.


Wolfgang
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