F19 Beta RC2: First log in - GNOME Welcome goes full screen

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue May 21 22:29:19 UTC 2013


On 05/22/13 05:30, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 21.05.2013 23:28, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> On 21.05.2013 23:13, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 22:54 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to disable this "feature"? It might be funny when you are
>>>> 10 years old, new Linux user and just gotten your first computer from
>>>> your parents. For all other cases it's ... ridiculous?
>>> ...except that I frequently still run into people who think you have to
>>> use the mouse to access the overview.
>> Yes, I know that there are different levels of user experience and not
>> all people find GNOME intuitive. On the other hand showing full screen
>> movie every time user logs in using new account is a bit strange way of
>> educating people.
>>
> Maybe showing status bar notification will be sufficient?

Maybe the question to answer is, "What triggers the GNOME New User Welcome Screen?".  Then, if this one time event causes difficulty, write a small post-user-create script to remove the trigger.

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