Re: [Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread Ed Lin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Matthew Bassett wrote: > I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the > archives of this mailing list, but... A few links: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/welcome-window https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/7906

[Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread cmaglothin
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 wrote: > I hope I am not raising

[Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Bassett
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,