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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Initial welcome application info
From:       Jan Muehlig <jan.muehlig () relevantive ! de>
Date:       2004-11-25 14:27:49
Message-ID: 41A5EBE5.2040604 () relevantive ! de
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If you install Linux (or get it preinstalled or use a live cd), you get 
a lot of applications installed. Normally, you can hardly conclude from 
the name what the application does for you. The menu only gives limited 
hints.

Furthermore, many applications start with no document at all or with one 
that gives little hints. Some start with a wizzard, some with a config 
dialog.

I assume (and know from many tests) that people will not use programs 
because they cannot easily figure out what it does.


Suggestion:
When the application starts for the first time, show some kind of popup 
that gives basic information about what the program does. For example: 
"This is mindmapping tool that helps you organising and visualising your 
ideas or argumentations". Many rpms provide this information anyway.

This inial popup has the unchecked checkbox "show at program start".

Comments?


Jan



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