Display a "Welcome to Kubuntu" on first boot

[Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN]

I like the idea as well. Should we try to make a fork and port the one from
Chakra? I really like that one as well.

*Ovidiu - Florin BOGDAN*
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2016-11-11 20:19 GMT+02:00 Aaron Honeycutt <honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com>:

> I really like how Chakra does it with a widget:
>
> https://chakralinux.org/static/img/chakra-screenshot.jpg
>
> I think it can define who we are and how a welcoming community we are.
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Marco Parillo <maparillo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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