Plasma desktop/mobile initial setup

[Jens]

The issue with first-run wizards is that they tend to get in the way more than they help, and are often skipped past and difficult to get back. 

One idea would be to have the "introduction" something that cm can be launched from the launcher or from system settings.

Beyond that there is also the old truism that if you need to explain to the user how to do common tasks then those tasks need redesign. I am more than intetested in this subject though and think that any work on it whether it's realized or not will be valuable. If nothing else to explore the pitfalls of design clearly and how we can improve them (to avoid an install wizard)

On 14 September 2016 14:25:26 CEST, "Martin Gräßlin" <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
>Am 2016-09-14 13:54, schrieb Jan Grulich:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> some time ago I had an idea to propose something like Plasma initial 
>> setup as
>> a bachelor thesis to our RedHat system, where students then can pick
>up 
>> our
>> ideas and realize them as their theses. Recently I got a student who 
>> would
>> like to work on this and I would like to know whether it's a good
>idea 
>> and
>> something like this would be desired. The initial setup would allow
>to
>> configure basic stuff like language, keyboard layout, online accounts
>
>> and so
>> on. What I realized now that we could actually do this for both
>desktop 
>> and
>> mobile using Kirigami. What do you think?
>
>I think that sounds great. Of course Johnathan has a point - it
>overlaps 
>with distro setup. But distro setup cannot handle new users or users 
>switching from GNOME ;-)
>
>There are certainly a few things which I would love to have in a first 
>run "wizard" which we currently don't expose at all. E.g. the location 
>service based on WIFI - or ideas like collecting user data where we
>need 
>them to opt in.
>
>So to me it's something which we absolutely lack at the moment! But 
>anyway: I think that needs close interaction with VDG (especially 
>Thomas).
>
>Cheers
>Martin

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