On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here are just few features that I believe would be great for Fedora
10 to have:
1. RFE: Add desktop folder with examples of what "fedora thing" can do :)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315171
Lisa gets Fedora 10 Live CD from her Joe (her geeky boyfriend) and
puts it in her laptop. After she gets presented with a different
looking desktop that
she is usually presented she doesn't know what this "fedora thing"
actually does and can do. Joe gives her a CD version of Ubuntu, after
loosing temper with trying to explain what fedora can actually do.
Lisa puts Ubuntu CD in and after few minutes she clicks through a few
examples on her new desktop and sees that this "Ubuntu thing" does
more that that "Fedora thing" like plays music & videos, shows nice
spreadsheets and other documents.
It would be great for Fedora to add directory on desktop with some
nice examples what Fedora and OSS can do. There are great videos on
redhat magazine page and I'm sure there are other great resources -
new users need to be exposed to them in this way. Also there is a
initiative for contriburots to make screencasts and this feature would
be a great match with it if they merged together.
How about a welcome screen that pops up everytime you boot up, with an
obnoxious shortcut to it in the top of our 'go' menu. No matter how
many times you 'disable this the next time it boots', it still nags
you to install aMSN.
</sarcasm>
I think a folder might not be the best interface, but even so, putting
in a default bookmarks like we do already is not really effective
either. Maybe this is something the myFedora guys might want to look
at at some point.
-Yaakov