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 --- Druid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org