Display a "Welcome to Kubuntu" on first boot

[Marco Parillo]

First, I think everybody's opinion matters, and as a tribal elder (not sure
you want that title), yours especially matters.
Kubuntu has been pretty vanilla KDE, and, on balance, I have considered its
fidelity to the KDE developers' vision (when practical) to be a strength.
Maybe a compromise is to go back having a folder on the default activity
and put a launcher to the Welcome there, or a launcher to the Welcome in
the favorites on the Kicker Application Launcher (my preference).

As far as wanting to understand the historical background before changing a
practice, that is a good idea in general. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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