Hi everyone. Glad you all had a chance to take a look. I am moving to Seattle from Chicago tonight, so I will be away for about 4 days. I will get back and take a long hard look at all this and let you know.
Thanks so much, James On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Calum: > > (Personal feedback, not speaking on behalf of Marketing team:) >>> >>>> From a technical point of view I wonder how much slower this will make >>>> >>> login time. "If we still have a splash screen in ten years, we have done >>> something wrong." (I think I quoted dobey here.) >>> Also wondering if this would annoy me when I log in for the, say, 30th >>> time. >>> >> >> Inclined to agree-- might be worth showing once per user, though, like the >> "Welcome to OSX" sort of thing that Apple do. After that, probably just >> leave it somewhere that people can find it again, if they want to. >> >> Could be interesting to use this sort of technology to do a GNOME desktop >> tour video, though, especially if it was updated to highlight the coolest >> features in each release :) (Although one problem that's always existed >> with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME features, and/or add >> their own...) >> > > I would think that the most important and exciting features would be > common to all or most distros. Highlighting humanitarian features > such as how it can be used in projects like the "One Laptop Per Child" > program, its accessibility, its translation into 3rd world languages, > its ease of use, etc. are probably all things that most distros wouldn't > mind letting users know about, especially if it makes the desktop > feel more exciting. > > Brian > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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