Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-16 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
2011/5/15 Jim Campbell > To anyone interested in the Ubuntu Tour project, or in creating a program that launches on startup to give you some kind of a tour, though, please join the Ubuntu docs team instead. We are moving in a good direction. Thanks for the great info on the planned features by t

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-16 Thread huffylinux
On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:18:07 +0100 Alan Pope wrote: > http://ubuntutour.org/ If you go here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tour-admins/stable/ubuntu/dists/ or http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tour-admins/stable/ubuntu/dists/ you find out they don't have a repository for natty yet. ___

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-15 Thread Jim Campbell
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist < niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > The thing with the help application is that it isn't very good looking. > Ubuntu's new direction with Unity is to bring good design and good code. > Instead of looking like a web page I want an application

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-15 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
The thing with the help application is that it isn't very good looking. Ubuntu's new direction with Unity is to bring good design and good code. Instead of looking like a web page I want an application that looks more native. The help application is really good at providing help when you need it bu

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-15 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 14 May 2011 15:27, Niklas Rosenqvist > wrote: > > The two problems I'm trying to solve is that new users don't know what to > do > > next after a fresh install and the second one is the possibility to > further > > extend the Ubu

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 14 May 2011 15:27, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote: > The two problems I'm trying to solve is that new users don't know what to do > next after a fresh install and the second one is the possibility to further > extend the Ubuntu desktop environment (maybe with Unity 2D). Now when a user > who just migr

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
"I highly encourage the Ubuntu Tour proponents to look at the Help already shipped in Ubuntu 11.04 (which unfortunately is a bit hidden in the Dash but that should be better in 11.10). A decent amount of what is wanted may already be possible with that framework. Please talk to the Ubuntu Document

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
>>> 2011/5/14 Niklas Rosenqvist I haven't heard about the Ubuntu Tour project earlier and I think it's great initiative! It will be very helpful for new users and people migrating from other operating systems. But this still doesn't solve the problem with more default app

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
I know, the Ubuntu icons are just placeholders for more appropriate icons which I didn't have time to find :) 2011/5/14 Toki Tahmid > It looked fantastic to me. Only thing I'd modify is the button so it shows > an icon of what it takes you to. > > > On 14 May 2011 20:37, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Toki Tahmid
It looked fantastic to me. Only thing I'd modify is the button so it shows an icon of what it takes you to. On 14 May 2011 20:37, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote: > Just want to add that some colors may look a bit off since my monitor is > not color calibrated and I saw it one another monitor recently an

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
Just want to add that some colors may look a bit off since my monitor is not color calibrated and I saw it one another monitor recently and it looked kinda bad. So I hope you can imagine the end result anyway. 2011/5/14 Niklas Rosenqvist > I haven't heard about the Ubuntu Tour project earlier an

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
I haven't heard about the Ubuntu Tour project earlier and I think it's great initiative! It will be very helpful for new users and people migrating from other operating systems. But this still doesn't solve the problem with more default applications and how people should learn about the ubuntu-res

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread David Stevenson
On 13/05/11 11:43, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote: > What do you guys think about the "Welcome Center" idea? I agree. Although as other have said this is already there to some extent, I do think a basic install and then directly into a way to expand it to suit your needs would be good. I feel the 'one

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Alexander Lancey
Sounds like what we're going for with the Ubuntu Tour https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tour On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Shane Fagan wrote: > I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if > we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. So > when you open

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Alan Pope
On 13 May 2011, at 13:35, Shane Fagan wrote: > I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if > we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. http://ubuntutour.org/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/the-ubuntu-tour-project-needs-your-help/ Etc ___

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Fagan
I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. So when you open a fresh install it would ask you if you want the walk through and then do a series of animations showing how to open the dash, maybe the shortcut ke

[Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
Hi! I've been thinking about the discussion at UDS concerning the problem with fitting extra content on only one CD. There has been some debating on whether Ubuntu should stick to it's one CD policy or go with a DVD sized installation image or multiple CD's. I myself haven't attented UDS I've just