For all who are interested, see
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-welcome/-/issues/7 to discuss
requirements and implementation details.
Nate
On 9/27/22 21:25, Nate Graham wrote:
So it seems pretty clear that distro extensibility is a desired feature.
We'll be discussing this during Akademy next week at 11 AM on Wednesday
in room 1; see https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2022/Wednesday. If
you're attending, please feel free to participate!
Hopefully I can recruit someone far more talented at software
development than I to get it done, but if not, I'll gird my loins and
try to code it up myself.
Nate
On 9/21/22 13:47, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
Hi Nate,
Doing this one with my Ubuntu Studio hat on.
On Monday, September 19, 2022 5:23:33 PM PDT Nate Graham wrote:
Hello distro folks!
A few of us have been working on a welcome wizard for Plasma; see
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-welcome. The idea is to be an
onboarding experience to teach people basics about what KDE and Plasma
weare, how to get started using the system, how to get involved and
donate, and so on. It would also be used to show release notes after
upgrade.
I know some of you represent distros that already have their own
first-run wizards. We don't want the user to see two wizards, so would
you prefer to continue showing your own wizard and don't show the KDE
one (which is perfectly fine), or to migrate the content in yours to one
or more new pages the KDE one, should such a thing become possible by
supplying custom distro-specific pages?
Nate
For a while now, and it's no secret since OMG! Ubuntu published an
article
about it about four years ago, but we (Ubuntu Studio) had been working
on a
welcome app four years ago that never really got off the ground. Back
then we
were on Xfce and two years ago we switched to Plasma as our DE.
Having a fully-customizable welcome app would be very... "welcome",
but it
would have to be modular. I like what the calamares installer has done
where
the base package looks for files in specific locations for its modules
and
customizations, but those files are installed by a separate package.
Right now, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears as though
everything in
this app is hard-coded into the binary itself. That's problematic as
it leaves
very little for customization from a distribution standpoint. What I'd
like to
see is something where these pages that are hardcoded can be
enabled/disabled
via some sort of configuration file. For instance, if a
/usr/share/plasma-
welcome directory with the necessary distribution assets and plasma-
welcome.json file would exist with the proper configuration were to
exist to
specify the configuration, that would be fairly acceptable.
In summary, I think this would be excellent if it were modular and
customizable for the distribution. Ubuntu Studio would use this to
introduce
various features and aspects of the included applications, whereas I'm
sure
Kubuntu, which is more Plasma-centric, would probably make few
customizations.
That said, I look forward to seeing where this project goes, and I'll be
watching it closely.
Erich
