Feedback from What New Users Want BoF at ubucon

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 06:13:54 BST 2006


On 8/19/06, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Fr, 2006-08-18 at 16:52 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > The other issue was that of the LiveCd. Once you get into the desktop,
> > it is not apparently clear that you are running a LiveCD. Thus I
> > propose we put a notification bubble (this was mdz's idea) up a live
> > desktop to tell people.
> how would that work ? popping it up in intervals (annoying) ? or just
> showing it on login (only the person who booted will see the bubble) ?

It will only be on the live cd and only shown once.

> i'd propose an artwork driven way and make it visible via the wallpaper,
> unless you actively change that it will be always seen on a livecd and
> its more persistent. i trust our artteam that they would be able to do
> it in an elegant and unobtrusively way.

Interesting idea Both ideas should be created and tested, as they are trivial.

Corey



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