On 20.09.2011 Kim wrote:
Hello Geeckos!
There were a discussion[1] about kicking SUSEGreeter a few months ago. And yes, it was quite quiet about it until today.
My idea:
creating a site called welcome.opensuse.org, instead of using SuSEgreeter.
SUSEGreeter was very nice in a time where not everyone had an internet connection. In the most countries of the world, an internet connection is standard now.
So, I think SUSEgreeter should be retired. There so many new technologies on the internet, so, why not using a website instead of SUSEGreeter?
The idea:
* Creating a website which is lightweight but still delivers a comprehensive bunch of information, which could be useful for first start.
* Links to openSUSE News, openSUSE´s facebook presence and other SUSE stuff on the internet
* Link to the mailinglist archive
* Download links for additional CDs
* link to SUSE Studio
* links to the most important wiki pages
I´m on the way to create a prototype of such a site and want to ask you if anyone else is interested in it? I´m working a bit with HTML && CSS in the near past and the near future, so it also would help me to get in the stuff ;-)
So, I want to ask for comments and ideas about it.
If there people who are interested in it, don´t be shy and join the project ;-)
First of all, I think it's a good idea to replace SUSE Greeter. Initially I was thinking why not just point to openSUSE.org but it does make sense to have a page specifically for those who have installed openSUSE already. So it should have a prominent search for more software (!!) and links to the important how-to's and other documentation. Share pls once you have something nice :D
kind regards, Kim