Rupert Horstkötter a écrit :
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
-- Rupert Horstkötter, openSUSE Community Email: rhorstkoetter@opensuse.org Phone: +49 6151 7897817 Mobile: +49 176 21820039
Hi, it looks to me that you guys Stephan and Rupert both had an excellent idea ! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org