[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 91441] Implementing a 'Welcome' dialog

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91441

--- Comment #5 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #2)
> I don’t see the point of reviving obsolete user interface paradigms. Wizards
> in general are clumsy and in-your-face.

My suggesting to use the existing welcome dialog, doesnt mean that it has to be
used as is, but we can customize it to our needs.

> And I disagree that we need to shove
> down users’ throats the perception that we are a software project in need of
> contributors

So showing a one-time notice that a user can contribute in various ways to
libreoffice is somehow shoving it down their throats. If this notice would
appear everytime a user opened libreoffice, then i'd agree that would likely be
considered shoving it down their throats.

> (I don’t mean we aren’t in need, but why users, especially
> enterprise users, should care about that?)

All types of users can contribute in different ways, so telling a user who
downloaded LO from download.com or got it with his ubuntu installation that he
could donate to LO or that if LO crashes he can file a bug/enhancement report
as means of supporting LO isnt a bad thing. With enterprise users, their IT
admin could easily disable the appearance of the dialog if they so choose.

When you run MSO 2010 for the first time, it asks you to enter in your full
name and initials [1]. New/casual users, e.g. Benjamin, would have no idea of
the importance to set these options unless they were prompted to set it, and
without this prompt, all the documents they created would be created with blank
user information. The user would likely notice this problem in libreoffice when
they insert a comment or record track changes, as it would be assigned to
'Unknown Author'. Most users never open the options dialog, and them setting
this information outside of the dialog, is just another reason for them to
never have to open it.

[1] :
http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/vsto/WindowsLiveWriter/TestAutomationTipsUserNamedialogafternew_ABB4/clip_image002_2.jpg

The dialog would also provide a notice about collection of 'usage data' for use
with the user metrics TDF tender [2], whenever it is finalized, because very
little data would be collected if users could only opt-in to it from the
options dialog.

[2] :
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/02/24/tender-to-develop-and-incorporate-usability-metrics-collection-for-libreoffice-201502-02/

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