I have seen this brought up before here, but never has anyone mentioned the way that Android does it. Android uses a simple widget that throws up little helpful hints in a non intrusive way of getting you started.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Bassett <li...@mbassett.net> wrote: > I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the > archives of this mailing list, but... > > There are many features of Unity (and also Gnome-shell) that are > different from previous desktops and in that sense non-obvious. > > Would it make sense to have a 'tips' application running, which would: > > 1) at startup, and then at some non-irritating interval throw up an OSD > notification with some tip about Unity UI shortcuts (or similar > features) -- an "inbox" of shown tips could be made available via the > messaging indicator menu (or maybe there is a better place for this?) > > 2) observe the users behaviour and use some simple heuristics to decide > on a tip that could be displayed (e.g. the 15th time that a user hits > the top panel to activate a menu, throw up a tip about using F10 or Alt > to activate menus, and similar) > > 3) should also include tips about finding further help (also in the tips > 'inbox') > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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