On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:06, Thorsten van Lil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im > Auftrag von Wolfgang Bornath > >>2010/9/30 atilla ontas <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Why we' re talking about a survey? Do we need this? We are not a >>> company and think about customer happiness. I thought this thread is >>> about a informational and/or assistance application for newbies. >>> > >>Agreed. Surveys are a nuisance anyway. >>1. A large part of survey participants do not tell the truth. >>2. A large part of users do not participate so you will not get any >>real information anyway. >>3. If something is wrong with the project, the distribution, user >>satisfaction or whatever you will know it by user postings in the >>forums earlier than by surveys. >> >>So, at the end of the day, >>What do you get by surveys to take away? >>More work to implement and to read them, that's all. > > Surveys are quite reasonable. You get a standardized conclusion. Many people > use a distribution without ever being registered at a forum. In a forum you > will only get the extremes (good and bad) but not the small papercuts that > may disturb the user, ... . There are many reasons for surveys (ask some > marketing guys or psychologists). > > But that’s for the fine tuning. We can think about such things, if we > released some versions. And I think it never should bother the user. Maybe a > button in the welcome center "Your opinion is important for use" but not > with a autostart after the first boot. > > Regards, > TeaAge >
Ok, so no survey, because they're a pain. How about that Welcome Center now? I mentioned the Linux Mint example earlier, it seems flexible to me... They use HTML and WebKit, i think, to render it. We could probably include links to applications too. -- later, Robert Xu _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
