Display a "Welcome to Kubuntu" on first boot

[Aaron Honeycutt]

I really like how Chakra does it with a widget:

https://chakralinux.org/static/img/chakra-screenshot.jpg

I think it can define who we are and how a welcoming community we are.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Marco Parillo <maparillo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
> 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 <clay at claydoh.com>
>> 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
>>
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