Plasma desktop/mobile initial setup

[kainz.a]

for example I read in the beta announcement that meta key can be used now
to open kicker. So show also new features could be usefull (look and feel
package, ...)

2016-09-14 15:08 GMT+02:00 Jens <jensreu at kolabnow.com>:

> 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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