Yes, I agree. A first-launch wizard that teaches you how to use Do and suggests plugins would be great. We should mark this as a GSoC task for next summer...
David On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Halse Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/15/08, David Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Jason was saying that choosing to enable some plugins and not others >> for the user should not be our choice to make. Chris, as the Ubuntu >> package maintainer of Do, shouldn't it be your decision which plugins >> are enabled by default in Ubuntu? For example, I think the Rhythmbox, >> Firefox, and Files and Folders, Dictionary, and Terminal plugins >> should be enabled by default in Ubuntu, but that it should ultimately >> left to your discretion. >> > > I'm not aware of any policy mechanism that I could use to do this; > that might be a useful wishlist. I'd suggest that the easiest way to > do this would be through gconf; that has a very packaging-friendly way > to specify user-overridable distribution defaults. > > I'm not suggesting that Do should check the plugin repositories and > automatically download & enable all the plugins it finds. I'm > suggesting that when the user has explicitly installed a plugin > package, which sticks the plugins in /usr/share/gnome-do/plugins, it'd > be nice to also enable those plugins that have already been installed. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
