Welcome app for Xubuntu

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Paul,

Both the Manjaro and Linux Mint versions have links to IRC (its the 'Chat
room' button in Manjaro) and toggles to disable on startup (bottom right
corner).


On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 5:58 PM Paul Sutton <zleap at disroot.org> wrote:

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> Hi  Yousuf
>
> Sounds like a good idea, one of the things that Mint include in its
> helper page is a link to the IRC channel, but yeah where and how to
> get help is always useful for new users.
>
> I think perhaps it should have a tick box that says show at startup so
> the user, can, if they so wish, keep seeing the page.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 29/02/2020 13:50, Yousuf Philips wrote:
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > I would like to recommend we add a welcome app, which would appear
> > on first running of the OS after installation, which is quite
> > popular on many distros like Ubuntu Mate, Linux Mint, Linux Lite,
> > Manjaro, etc. The benefit would be to help point users to our
> > various documentation, support, and soc, as well as to how they can
> > contribute.
> >
> > The one implemented by Manjaro is quite simple, as its a python
> > script, with a glade ui, and some html files. Here is how it looks
> > - https://imgur.com/HS1fAxh.png
> >
> > The git repo can be found below
> > https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/manjaro-hello
> >
> > If feasible, I'd like to get this included in 20.04 and would like
> > the help from a dev to help with the programming side.
> >
> > Alternatively the other simple option is from Linux Mint, which
> > looks like this - https://imgur.com/iasb2Zo.png - and its git repo
> > is below. https://github.com/linuxmint/mintwelcome
> >
> > Regards, Yousuf Philips
> >
>
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