2012/5/3 drew <d...@baseanswers.com>: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 22:29 +0200, RGB ES wrote: >> 2012/5/3 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>: >> > On 03/05/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >> >> One thing we don't have any more is that registration dialog from >> >> OpenOffice.org. Does anyone recall what that used to do? >> > >> > >> > If I recall correctly, in different periods it was used for a user survey >> > (and this would be a meaningful suggestion for the future maybe), for >> > registering accounts at Sun and for registering accounts at Oracle. >> > >> > You can get an idea of the survey at >> > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Phase_1:OOoUser_Survey >> > >> > Regards, >> > Andrea. >> >> It was also used to register the user "with him/herself": The >> registration process helped the user to fill the fields under Tools → >> Options → OpenOffice.org → User data. Now, for most new users that >> info will remain empty. While not a problem by itself, this means for >> example that documents will always open on the first page and not on >> the last edited point, because the user data do not match the document >> author. >> >> Regards > > Hi Ricardo > > That is a very good point IMO. I think it's fair to look at that as the > loss of an, optional, feature - this step of entering user information. > > I'm tempted to ask you to use the issue tracker, entering the > description and marking the issue as Request for Enhancement. > > Not that we should have the on-line registration, but rather to add a > (strong?) prompt during installation, with the intent to have the user > enter that information. > > What do you think? > > //drew > >
Instead of asking for this on install time, I think we need to define a "first run wizard" or something like that. It could be a simple document that opens on first run with a "thanks for using this program" message and a couple of buttons to perform some basic customizations, like adding the user info. I'm too short of sleep today to build a good feature request, but I'll try to think on something during the weekend. Ideas are welcomed ;) Regards Ricardo
