Re: Making release notes more useful - 'whats new ?'

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Jakub Steiner <jimmac gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> I believe the effort should be focused around the website. I prefer learning
> about what's new before I download, or while I download. I am not a fan of
> putting a Windows 95-like nag screen preventing me from actually using the
> system.

'Windows 95-like nag screen' - skilled use of negative association here...

> There are of course less intrusive ways to point to this information, such
> as a notification with a link to the website on first boot. But keep in mind
> that it's something not everybody is interested in and can get annoying if
> we're not careful.

Sure. We don't want to be annoying. There's certainly a balance to be
struck between being flashy and annoying and being dull and boring.

Currently we are entirely on the 'dull and boring' side. We don't
advertise new features at all to users who are not coming in via the
gnome.org website, but instead get GNOME3 as a side-effect of
installing or upgrading a Linux distro - which I would say is probably
99% of our users. How many of those do you think will find out that
GNOME 3.2 has a built-in on-screen keyboard ?