<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Kévin Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaiton@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">shaiton@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Oct 5, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a> at 4:21 PM, Elad Alfassa <<a href="mailto:elad@fedoraproject.org">elad@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> This message is sent to two lists: websites and desktop.<br>
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> <a href="http://start.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">start.fedoraproject.org</a> has many problems [0], mainly:<br>
> 1) it's ugly<br>
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</div>You can help<br></blockquote><div>I've tried, but the general agreement of the design team was that the page is useless <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> 2) it doesn't serve a clear function<br>
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</div>Yes it is, it shows me the awesome Fedora logo many times a day :)<br></blockquote><div>Not really useful. you can put a sticker next to your screen instead, if you want. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> 3) It's one of the first things people trying Fedora will see, so it'll<br>
> effect their opinion about Fedora.<br>
><br>
> I suggest we just drop this page completely and use the default firefox<br>
> about:home start page instead.<br>
> Thoughts?<br>
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</div>As seen before this page is used, to get people on the Planet.<br></blockquote><div>The planet is not really interesting for end-users, and contributors already have them in their RSS readers. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
And about:home will work only on Firefox, where we can actually set<br>
start.fpo to the home of every browsers if needed.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>Then we should use upstream default homepage for every browser we ship. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> [0] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign</a><br>
> --<br>
> -Elad Alfassa.<br>
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