<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Niedermann</b> <<a href="mailto:fbn@thelogic.org">fbn@thelogic.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm missing an important feature:<br><br>Ubuntu desktop configuration wizard<br><br>After the Installation (which is very nice) the user gets the GDM login<br>screen and then the Gnome 2.10
desktop.<br><br>But what to do next? There are some things most desktop users will try<br>to do after a brand new installation like installing more applications<br>and codecs for audio / video, web-plugins, desktop environment settings,
<br>mounting eventually available windows partitions and so on.<br><br>Users which are new to Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome have to learn, try and search<br>to get all these things working which is sometimes good because they<br>really learn a lot but I believe most users want to use the system in
<br>a short time and not spend a bunch of hours searching the web about<br>how to do general things after an installation.<br><br>"This should just work" - a graphical wizard that starts after the<br>first login to Gnome and asks the user "do you want to use packages
<br>from the universe and multiverse? explanation ..." would be great.<br><br>Explanation is important but should not be too long - users want to<br>work with the os and the applications they usually don't want to learn
<br>how there are working.<br><br>The wizard should then change settings and execute an apt-get update<br>in the background while the wizard asks the next questions.<br><br>Sure this wizard has to be optional and should be as intuitive as
<br>possible because some people could get annoyed of being asked stupid<br>(in their mind) questions by the wizard. So the first question could<br>be "Are you a new user to Linux / Unbutu / Gnome?" and based on this
<br>answer the wizard should pre-select the questions it asks the user.<br><br>An expert could exit the wizard and do everything on his own if he<br>wants to so he has affort of one click.<br><br>What do you think about that?
<br><br>Regards,<br> Frank<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Hi, I'm new to Ubuntu too, but not to debian and gnome.<br>
And I remember a time ago one start-up wizard in gnome, where it go?<br>
This suggestion is pretty good, but the wizard goal should be, powerful/speed questions/friendly, in these particular order.<br>
<br>-- <br>Rui Andrada<br>Linux user #198534<br>Why to use window if I have the door? Linux in the vain!<br>The box said 'requires Windows 95/98/NT or better' then installed the Linux.<br><br>Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as
<br>bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer<br>wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated,<br>cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.<br><br>:-)