Hi All, I've made a couple of new users on my system and I've been testing the "first time user" experience to the gnome that is in gnomehide. Specifically, setup druids and weirdnesses with where things are/how to find them. I decided to do it from a brand new user's perspective just so I didn't have any weird clutter from my own config files. here are some issues I've noticed: 1. evolution does "odd" things when you setup an imap server for your mail via their mail setup druid. You get this error about evo not being able to make a shortcut b/c you haven't typed in your password, of course you have never been given the option to type in a password so.. Then once in evo the only way to see the imap server in your list of folders is to exit and reload it. - this is TERRIBLY counterintuitive to a user who has just setup that server. 2. The Galeon First-time druid appears to be fubared b/c of something having to do with glade - I'm going to look into that in more detail - otherwise galeon's setup is TERRIBLY intuitive and really quite friendly, imo. 3. It might be friendlier to have the default icon size for the menus be larger. As well the default font in the terminal should probably be 1. bigger 2. bolder - its almost painfully hard to read at times. 4. The default theme of sawfish in red hat linux is, umm, cool clean. And it is umm, well completely horrible. I've been pushing for a better less sucky theme for AT LEAST 3 versions of red hat linux and I think it is finally here in the crux theme for sawfish. Please make it the new default. 5. Galeon should DEFINITELY supplant mozilla as the default web browser on the panel. - the widget set is consistent and makes sense. 6. if there is a way - and currently I do not know of one - of providing some "Default config sets" so that you can choose some "global themes" like the wizard in kde2's startup lets you do it would dramatically improve the functionality for new users. I brought up some of these things b/c I'm looking at what some of my users will be seeing and hoping to make some changes to make things more usable for people in general. Any suggestions on how to solve some of these or comments on if these things are moronic are gladly taken. Thanks -sv
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