Feedback from What New Users Want BoF at ubucon

[Viper550]

Corey Burger wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sa, 2006-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>> May I ask what the root of this issue is? Did the user expect that their
>> changes would be permanently? If yes, I think that both solutions won't
>> be sufficient.
>>     
>
> The issue was that users were totally unaware that they were on a
> LiveCD as there was not indication. Matt, Jordan Mantha and myself
> spoke about it briefly and given that a full app was rejected, a
> notification icon was accepted as a possible solution.
>
>   
>> At first we cannot be sure that the user sees the notification, since it
>> would disappear after some seconds. The user could just put the CD into
>> his drive, go to fetch some coffee or do other stuff during the boot
>> process.
>>     
>
> Yes, but no solutions are really optimal.
>
>   
>> Secondly only putting a "Live-CD" label on the wallpaper doesn't explain
>> the actual effects of using a live CD.
>>
>> Perhaps we should think about a nag screen if it is really such an
>> issue. A long term goal could be to enhance this nag screen in the
>> future to provide an option to save changed data on e.g. an USB stick.
>>     
>
> One idea might be to modify the bootup to process to notify the user
> before they hit the desktop.
>
> Corey
>
>   
Better idea:

Why don't we rig up Firefox to show a page talking about what exactly 
this disc is about automatically on login!

Viper550