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

[André Machado]

Dick Gevers <dvgevers at ...> writes:

> 
> Dear Andre!
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:03:05 +0000 (UTC), Andre Machado wrote about
> [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?:
> 
> >http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/925/mageiawelcome.png
> 
> And this is supposed to cover my whole desktop? Please: no.
> 
> I don't mean to be disrespectful, but if I started up my computer and saw
> this, I'd think I'd bought a tool for children instead of an adult operated
> personal computer.
> 
> /Ducking for flame throwers.
> 
> I regret that I do not very much like the idea. But if everyone on this
> list wants it: okay.
> 
> Best regards,
> =Dick Gevers=
> 

Dick,

Your views are welcome. I should remember that that you saw is just a draft. I
did a better version - which is also a draft - here.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n29kae

The intention is that it's just a window with a lower resolution than 800x600
that can be easily disabled. The Audience is that users that are having your
first contacts with GNU/Linux. In others follow-ups of this threads, we are
having interesting ideas.