Display a "Welcome to Kubuntu" on first boot

[Scott Kitterman]

In case I wasn't clear:

I think my opinion should have zero weight on this.  I only wanted to pass on 
the historical background.

Scott K

On Thursday, November 10, 2016 01:16:01 PM Clive Johnston wrote:
> 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