Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said:
2. Similarly, how is 'e)' different than the current user add
screen? How are additional users expected to configure this information
for their login if they are created in this manner?
Additional users can use the control-center to set
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
Would this be the right place for the give me a legible font thingy?
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Federico Mena Quintero
feder...@ximian.com wrote:
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
Hi,
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Brian Cameron
brian.came...@oracle.com wrote:
Most of the discussion does not seem to be about the login screen as
the subject line suggests. I think this is because the original email
in this thread lumped together GDM shell-style greeter topics with
Did anybody consider including language selection in the initial setup
screen. It a little hard to do that at the moment. Being able to change
the system language seems to be missing too, Gnome has to provide
something as distro are not support to extend the control panel so much.
Nicolas
Over the past week, I've been working with Ray on fleshing out the
plans for gdm in 3.2. We are aiming for 2 things for 3.2:
- A new 'shell-style' greeter. You can see a mockup on the feature page.
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Over the past week, I've been working with Ray on fleshing out the
plans for gdm in 3.2. We are aiming for 2 things for 3.2:
- A new 'shell-style' greeter. You can see a mockup on the feature page.
Will the UI be something that can
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
Please don’t do this. It would merely duplicate the functionality
already in
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote:
Please don’t do this. It would merely duplicate the functionality
already in the installer.
A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished.
There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 09:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished.
There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work:
- preinstalled or otherwise provisioned systems
- generally any situation where the person
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 08.02 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto:
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
I strongly suggest to postpone this, if planned to be performed after
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 15:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 09:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished.
There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work:
- preinstalled or
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:19 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 08.02 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto:
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
I
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 14.29 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto:
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:19 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
I strongly suggest to postpone this, if planned to be performed after
installation and before first login to setup the master user (as it
seems reading the
On 20 May 2011 14:44, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote:
Now serious, I repeat. We still have to define what GNOME OS will be. So
I suggest to use 3.2 timeframe to clean up applications and libraries
instead starting to work on downstream stuff. Do you?
I thought 3.0 was all about getting
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote:
If you missed the point, I'm asking about planned behavior and features
for this first time assistant:
A. will it be only for master user or for all users?
B. will it allow some kind of customization by
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote:
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
- An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few
essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the
first time.
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 11:11 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
The best argument for having this as part of the OS is for the live CD
scenario. You might as well type in your username each time if you
have to pick language etc. too.
Hi,
The liveCD or the installer don't require any output,
Hi!
B. Not planned, no. This is intended to configure a handful of
essential things, not an open-ended list of things you might want to
set up if happen to know about them. If twitter-esque web services
become supported by 'online accounts', that would make it possible for
gwibber to pick up
Hi,
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote:
Hi!
B. Not planned, no. This is intended to configure a handful of
essential things, not an open-ended list of things you might want to
set up if happen to know about them. If twitter-esque web services
become
Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said:
Let me answer them.
A. The design is to run this only for the initial setup, when no users
exist yet. The large majority of systems nowadays are single-user,
anyway...
OK, but that does make me wonder about when this isn't the case. The
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote:
Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said:
Initial state: a system with no users
a) InitialSetup runs
b) Create first user
c) Configure first user's settings
d) First user has full session
e) First user
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