Some of you may remember there was a flurry of email a while ago about counting GNOME users. Most ideas discussed can be found at
http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers What would it take to add two checkboxes to the capplet: "Register me as a GNOME user!" and "Periodically confirm I am still an active GNOME user" with appropriate Help and Tooltip entries to explain that "registering" would mean sending a hash of your username and IP address to somewhere.gnome.org, and that "confirm" means to do the same every month, year, <whatever>. Previously the home for this functionality has been suggested as "About GNOME", but it strikes me that the "About Me" capplet is much more likely to be seen by a large proportion of users than the "About GNOME" dialog. An argument against putting it in "About Me" is that vendors may modify "About Me" but are not likely to modify "About GNOME". Thoughts? If you reply to this, please cc marketing list, and consider dropping by #marketing on irc.gnome.org cheers, John -- John Williams Research Analyst Department of Marketing, Otago University http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/marketing/staff/williamsj.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
