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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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