Change the default settings of Kubuntu to improve the first time user experience

[Tomasz Dudzik]

We can leave the browser topic by now. I think everyone who wants to try
out Kubuntu already know how to visit google.com and hit the "GET CHROME "
button. We need to concentrate on look&feel. So:

-create a new background for installer, lightdm & splash.
-create a user friendly KCM to turn on local sharing. OS X has done this
very well.
-avatar from webcam/file and wifi connection support in Ubiquity
-make user configuration user friendly
-finally change the installer slieshow. This didn't change for about 3-4
releases.
-add more monochromatic icons for all notification-helpers. Please use
existing or talk to Nuno Pinheiro.

I will work on artwork, as some of you might know. Please, if you fell good
in programing take care of the rest.

I think these are most important changes from the new user point view.

Please vote! :)

2013/1/24 Nowardev-Team <nowardev at gmail.com>

> well the defaults for me are not important anymore cuz i know so well
> packages and kubuntu that i did my ppa with my packages and my defaults
>
> said that ....
>
> rekonq is a joke , yesterday for example i tried another time on 13.04 cuz
> i had a problem with firefox alpha and tadaaa it did not login in my bank
> .... i have tested in other site i use and it's not useable for me or it
> doens't work well (with stable firefox worked.)
>
> so for me the best it's leave to user the choice to select it's own
> prefered browser at installation point
>
> if i was kubuntu dev i would ask me how many years users has to wait to
> get a decent qt browser . and has it a meaning to  deliver something that
> doens't work well for BROWSING that is the FIRST activity that a linux user
> does ?
>
> btw someone has said , i have agrree , that firefox has not a great
> integration with kde , expecially if you have to open deb tar and launch
> dolphin ....
>
> i have fixed it using like association kde-open for every mime.
>
> said that :D  i don't care about defaults i use mini.iso then i do this
>
> sudo apt-get install $(echo  $(apt-cache show kubuntu-desktop | awk
> '/Depen/ || /Rec/{ gsub(/\,/,"")
> ;gsub(/Recommends:/,"");gsub(/Depends:/,"");gsub(/dragonplayer/,"vlc
> vlc-data  vlc-nox vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-notify
> vlc-plugin-pulse vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svg
> vlc-plugin-zvbi");gsub(/rekonq/,"firefox"); print} ' | awk '{ printf "%s",
> $0 }') | sort)
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/1/24 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
>
>> On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 08:14:48 PM Rohan Garg wrote:
>> > Please not that we cannot ship some multimedia things like libav due
>> > to patent issues as a result of which apps like vlc cannot be shipped
>> > ( and by extension, same thing goes for chromium though I am not
>> > entirely sure about that, maybe someone can offer a better explanation
>> > of why we can't ship chromium as the default ).
>>
>> There is only one browser in the archive with adequate security support
>> and
>> that's Firefox.  The lack of piles of qtwebkit/reqkonq security uploads
>> doesn't mean they are an order of magnitude better about security than
>> Firefox, just that we don't know what the issues are.  Chromium gets some
>> maintenance, but it's not a reliably updated as Firefox.  Given the
>> volume and
>> scope of web browser security issues, I think it's crazy to be using
>> anything
>> else.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
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Pozdrawiam, T. Dudzik
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