https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91441
--- Comment #5 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #2) > I don’t see the point of reviving obsolete user interface paradigms. Wizards > in general are clumsy and in-your-face. My suggesting to use the existing welcome dialog, doesnt mean that it has to be used as is, but we can customize it to our needs. > And I disagree that we need to shove > down users’ throats the perception that we are a software project in need of > contributors So showing a one-time notice that a user can contribute in various ways to libreoffice is somehow shoving it down their throats. If this notice would appear everytime a user opened libreoffice, then i'd agree that would likely be considered shoving it down their throats. > (I don’t mean we aren’t in need, but why users, especially > enterprise users, should care about that?) All types of users can contribute in different ways, so telling a user who downloaded LO from download.com or got it with his ubuntu installation that he could donate to LO or that if LO crashes he can file a bug/enhancement report as means of supporting LO isnt a bad thing. With enterprise users, their IT admin could easily disable the appearance of the dialog if they so choose. When you run MSO 2010 for the first time, it asks you to enter in your full name and initials [1]. New/casual users, e.g. Benjamin, would have no idea of the importance to set these options unless they were prompted to set it, and without this prompt, all the documents they created would be created with blank user information. The user would likely notice this problem in libreoffice when they insert a comment or record track changes, as it would be assigned to 'Unknown Author'. Most users never open the options dialog, and them setting this information outside of the dialog, is just another reason for them to never have to open it. [1] : http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/vsto/WindowsLiveWriter/TestAutomationTipsUserNamedialogafternew_ABB4/clip_image002_2.jpg The dialog would also provide a notice about collection of 'usage data' for use with the user metrics TDF tender [2], whenever it is finalized, because very little data would be collected if users could only opt-in to it from the options dialog. [2] : http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/02/24/tender-to-develop-and-incorporate-usability-metrics-collection-for-libreoffice-201502-02/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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