Online Desktop run-through

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

2008/4/2 Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com>:
>   * When Firefox was started, it came up with two tabs, both with the
>    Fedora start page

The two tabs are intentional apparently. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437065

>   * It seemed a little less than obvious that you should click on
>    the "Enable Online Desktop" link to proceed, especially with the
>    browser window sitting there. There wasn't a clear flow that
>    enabling the online desktop was the *first* step.

Should we set the browser homepage to online.gnome.org?

>  ** Bigboard was configured to use the default "Milky" theme rather than
>    the Fedora theme.

I will look at this one.

>   * When I did click on "enable the online desktop", I then had *three*
>    browser tabs
>
>   * After going to my mail, and clicking on the link, I had *four*
>    browser tabs.

Do you expect a different behavior or are you just pointing out we
open up too many tabs to just get the thing setup?

>  ** A "GNOME Online" person appeared in the People stock.

I will try to track this down.

>   * There was no obvious way to add more people to the people stock.
>    If there are no online.g.o contacts, a minimal thing would be to
>    have a button to launch Pidgin.

It would be nice to auto-launch Pidgin on login, except for the first
login you'd
just a screen to setup the accounts.

Perhaps we should have a button which launches/configure Pidgin the
first time and once things are configured we start it automatically.

>   * Hard to find out how to add more stocks to the bigboard

We could split preferences and stocks management. Preferences could be
provided by a normal GNOME capplet and stocks configuration by a
"Widgets..." menu item (or something).

>   * Sidebar Preferences should put a border around the preview images -
>    they look funny blending into the background.

Yeah, I'll look at this one.

>   * Apps stock should be labelled "Applications" not "Apps"?

I agree, I'll fix it.

>   * In the Apps browser, selecting an application (which shows the
>    profile to the left) should also highlight the selected app,
>    since otherwise you don't feel you have good click-feedback.
>    Same for the People browser

The interaction with the apps list in the browser is a little
confusing. You have to click to select and then click again to launch.
In most cases the selection doesn't seem to provide any additional
information, perhaps we should rethink this a bit so that we can have
single click -> launch?

Marco