proposal to remove the "Start Here" icon
Mike Fedyk
mfedyk at matchmail.com
Fri Jul 16 23:20:34 UTC 2004
Brent Fox wrote:
>I propose that we remove the "Start Here" icon from the default desktop
>for the following reasons:
>
>- It presents the same choices that the Main Menu does, just in a
>different way. This is potentially confusing and inconsistent. The
>Menu is a much faster way to launch apps anyway.
>
>
But it's nice to have one window with all of the "panels" available for
double clicking on. It's a pain to have to go through the menu to get
to each pref panel especially on low resolution.
>- The name "Start Here" implies that there it will take you to a set of
>steps to set up your desktop, but it doesn't do that.
>
>
But it does. It gives you the preferences and system settings in a
window, which some people prefer to the menus.
>- It's basically useless. :)
>
>
Allowing another way to get the same window should still be there though.
>I think a case could be made for a first-run desktop tutorial kind of
>thing, but "Start Here" as it currently exists is not it. I propose
>that we remove this icon for FC3test2 and see if anybody complains.
>
>
Maybe "start here" should be renamed to "Control Panel" or something.
While it isn't a step through introduction to the system, it does
provide an alternate view in the "spacial" way.
You're not taking away the "start-here:///" target in nautilus are you?
Mike
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