[sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

[Kimberley Quirk]

I don't think we want it to auto launch, but perhaps it should be the  
first icon on the left.

Thoughts on that?

Kim

On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Eben Eliason wrote:

> My personal opinion on the matter is that we shouldn't be doing the  
> launch automatically, but others are welcome to disagree. =)  I  
> think the presence of a nice, clean, question mark icon on the Home  
> screen after boot will be plenty for those that want to jump into  
> help right away, and instilling the Home zoom level as just what it  
> is -- Home -- is equally important.  Particularly because of the  
> fullscreen nature of the activities (and the new launcher itself), I  
> actually think it would be more disorienting to be driven directly  
> into the help activity.
>
> I'm not sure the decision was finalized, as the ticket you worked  
> from didn't make it clear one way or the other.  Thanks for your  
> hard work, either way!
>
> -  Eben
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bobby Powers  
> <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the agreement when we met about this was to *not* autolaunch
> > the activity. Eben?
>
> that could certainly be.  it was a fun little project for an hour, and
> I wasn't aware a decision was reached on whether or not to autolaunch
> it.
>
> bobby
>
> > Marco
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Bobby Powers  
> <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> after talking with Seth this evening, I whipped together a small  
> patch
> >> (against the current git heads of sugar and sugar-toolkit) to  
> launch
> >> an activity with the service name of org.laptop.Help on the first  
> boot
> >> of the XO.  It checks the user profile for a field called  
> 'ShowHelp'
> >> in a category 'FirstBoot', which doesn't exist on the first  
> launch.  I
> >> know this has been talked about for G1G1, does anyone have any  
> better
> >> ideas of how to do this?
> >>
> >>
> >> yours,
> >> Bobby
> >>
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