[sugar] patch for a first boot launch of a Help activity

[Eben Eliason]

My personal opinion on the matter is that we shouldn't be doing the launch
automatically, but others are welcome to disagree. =)  I think the presence
of a nice, clean, question mark icon on the Home screen after boot will be
plenty for those that want to jump into help right away, and instilling the
Home zoom level as just what it is -- Home -- is equally important.
 Particularly because of the fullscreen nature of the activities (and the
new launcher itself), I actually think it would be more disorienting to be
driven directly into the help activity.
I'm not sure the decision was finalized, as the ticket you worked from
didn't make it clear one way or the other.  Thanks for your hard work,
either way!

-  Eben


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the agreement when we met about this was to *not* autolaunch
> > the activity. Eben?
>
> that could certainly be.  it was a fun little project for an hour, and
> I wasn't aware a decision was reached on whether or not to autolaunch
> it.
>
> bobby
>
> > Marco
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> after talking with Seth this evening, I whipped together a small patch
> >> (against the current git heads of sugar and sugar-toolkit) to launch
> >> an activity with the service name of org.laptop.Help on the first boot
> >> of the XO.  It checks the user profile for a field called 'ShowHelp'
> >> in a category 'FirstBoot', which doesn't exist on the first launch.  I
> >> know this has been talked about for G1G1, does anyone have any better
> >> ideas of how to do this?
> >>
> >>
> >> yours,
> >> Bobby
> >>
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