On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Martin Sourada <martin.sour...@gmail.com>wrote:
> But lets look at the current one first. What's in: > 1. search -- superfluous, current web browsers have search integrated > in their UIs and in my experience people use it > True. Furthermore having a Google powered search as a fedora branded page doesn't really fit with the project values, because Google is not open source. > 2. fedora planet posts -- that's what default configs of rss readers > should include, why duplicating it in a web browser? > Excellent point. Plus, we have the planet in the default bookmark set > 3. announcements -- well this one's hard, the mailing list probably > does not have a rss feed, or does it? > Actually, every mailing list has an RSS feed, that's how we get the announcements on start.fpo :) > 4. a bunch of links -- can be better managed with initial speed dial > config > Or better set of default bookmarks. > > Furthermore, since major players in the browser feed are already using > speed dial (chrome by default, firefox for new tabs), people are most > likely used to that. > There's only one thing that bugs me a little. One of the biggest sources > of traffic on my blog is from start.fedorapeople.org (even more than > from the planet itself) so what we are discussing *might* not reflect > the real state of things, actually... Are there any statistically > significant data (I realize one low-traffic blog is not statistically > significant) regarding the real-world usage of start.fp.o? > I don't know if we have any statistics, I never bothered to find out. if someone has them, it's probably the infrastructure team. > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > desktop mailing list > desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > My suggestion after reading this long discussion: We should have a first-run page which Firefox will show after you install Fedora. After that, it should show the default upstream start page. For other browsers and/or people who prefer to use it, we will keep start.fpo (maybe redesign it to look better) and anyway have start.fpo as part of the set of default bookmarks. Sounds reasonable? -- -Elad Alfassa.
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