Display a "Welcome to Kubuntu" on first boot

[Clive Johnston]

ah I was unaware this was a policy.  

The discussion was about how to engage more with our users and to try and get 
more people to contribute.  It was pointed out how Linux Mint do it and it 
might be a factor in how they seem to be very successful at creating and 
sustaining a community (#1 on http://distrowatch.com/) .

I do feel that Kubuntu is in a different place now to when the policy was 
originally drawn up, but I'm not going to waste time on something no-one 
wants.

Thanks for your feedback,
Clive

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 01:53:04 GMT Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 09, 2016 08:27:23 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, November 10, 2016 2:00:48 AM EST Clive Johnston wrote:
> > >> There was some discussion at the end of Yakkety Yak, about maybe
> > >> following
> > >> the lead of Linux Mint and having a welcome screen on first run which
> > >> would
> > >> act as a signpost to resources and places to get help or how to
> > >> contribute.  I personally like this idea and decided to look into it.
> > >> 
> > >> I grabbing the code and hacked a bit to basically make it more Kubuntu
> > >> branded and pointing to our resources.  So this is were I am up to.
> > >> 
> > >> https://s16.postimg.org/jngn4afb9/Kubuntu_Welcome.png
> > >> 
> > >> What do you guys think? Do you like the idea?
> > >> 
> > >> Clive
> > > 
> > > Kubuntu has historically refrained from having these pop up and
> > > first-run
> > > items, and I do not see a reason to change from this policy.
> > > 
> > > However, having content that appears in the default Folder View plasma
> > > widget would be a perfect place for this.
> > > 
> > > If this sort of item is ever to be added, then really is should be
> > > written
> > > in qml :)
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Clay Weber
> > 
> > Hi Clay, I don't recall discussion of providing something like this,
> > in the past. Can you recall when it was discussed, and why it was
> > decided against?
> > 
> > In my opinion, the past is one data point. I'd like to see reasons for
> > and against. I see:
> > 
> > Pro - increases our branding, points to help and also to ways to grow
> > the community
> > 
> > Con - it is one more thing we need to maintain
> 
> Jonathan was extremely anti first-run dialogues since I got involved in the
> project.  You all are, of course, free to change it, but AFAIK, Kubuntu has
> been no first-run since ~the beginning.  Personally, I've always liked that.
> 
> Scott K