Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:20 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote:
> Adam:
> Does your GNOME Shell environment provides a "Welcome to Your New
> Desktop" kind of thing and then points to gnome3.org for tutorial
> videos? 

No.  I don't recall a splash screen.

> I am just responding to a post that suggests a Welcome dialog box in a
> freshly installed distro with GNOME Shell as the desktop. Does the
> stable GNOME 3 provides that? 

I don't think so;  it is a reasonable idea IMO [but I doubt it will make
much difference, people in a hurry click-through splash pages].

> If not, then your gnome3.org point is moot as this has something to do
> with new users to get them informed of what's new and what's not.

It isn't moot; GNOME3 being a mysterious surprising and haphazard
change-for-the-sake-of-change has been claimed several times.  When...
<http://www.bing.com/search?q=gnome3&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n&sk=>
 - note the *first* result. That site is also a prominant link from
<http://www.gnome.org/>.  That site is the first link found at
<http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero> (which is the third search
result).  If someone is shocked by GNOME3 or claims they don't know the
reasoning for the changes - they did not take any time at all to go look
[so not knowing is a rather inevitable condition].  So anyone coming
here [Hey, they found this list!] and making that claim is bogus IMO.
They can disagree with GNOME3, but claiming it is surprising or
unexplained is just pure crap.