On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I know this is gonna be flamed down, but I'm feelin' brave today so > let's try it anyway: > 4) put an reportbug-ng icon on the desktop by default on every > fresh installation > I know this smells like the classic AOL-Button on every Windows-Desktop, > but with our *users* in mind, it might be worth a try -- post-etch of > course and when reportbug-ng is stable enough.
While I wouldn't go as far as adding a permanent "there are bugs in your operating system" icon on the desktop, I agree reportbug(-ng) is not visible enough for newcomers. Concerning GNOME, the bug-buddy tool is not visible in any menu by default, but pops up when an application crashes (and a SIGSEGV is caught). I think we lack some integration in this area, there is definitely room for improvement such as collecting package versions, or sending bug-buddy reports to a .debian.org gateway (which may simply forward them upstream but collect some stats for us for example). Concerning visibility, Ubuntu does something very Windowish and I find the feature great: you get a welcome screen in the default GNOME you get after the installation. This seems to be a kind of mini-help center, a short presentation of Ubuntu. It's nice and polished, and I think this where we must be passing our messages, one of them being "hey, help us improve Debian by submitting good bugs". -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
