[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

André Machado afmachado at dcemail.com
Wed Sep 29 22:08:48 CEST 2010


> - Display on the welcome screen basic hardware information : Processor, 
> RAM, video card and the driver currently activated.

Can this be done using HTML pages or need some extra tool?

> - A link to sysinfo:// that offers some hardware information that could 
> fit inside the welcome center as it is a simple HTML layout. On that 
> page, there can be a link directly to Harddrake to get even more 
> information. Getting system information easily is actually a thing many 
> distros miss, apparently.

Is this sysinfo:// default or is implemented by any special tool?

> But there should be a warning light on such a welcome center : beware 
> the windows-like thing. We really need to think about a new and useful 
> design.

Indeed. I guess that Windows Vista/7 has a simmilar tool called Wellcome Center.
So, we need think on a better name to avoid lawsuits...






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