[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154593] Show a "Welcome Screen" on first startup with appropriate info and choices

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154593

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Why? ... we should
> provide functional defaults that let them get on with using the application.
>
> But we should not FORCE it on them, there are other documentation
> avenues/getting started help that is more appropriate than an "in-your-face"
> do this before you can start doing anything.

We agreed we need to ask the user explicitly about some things on first
startup. This is not my idea - I would have been fine with some default
choices. But we had super-long discussions and arguments about the default UI
which seem to have reached a wide agreement on doing this.

As for the dark/light mode - that's more debatable, although many apps ask
about this on startup.

>  We should NOT pester people with this kind of nonsense

But we already pester people with nonsense on startup - with tip of the day. I
have to apologize though, I wrote tooltip and meant to say tip of the day.

> The UI picker as evolved was sufficient, it hinted that the MUFFIN
> assemblages were available as alternatives. Beyond that we WANT people to
> read the manual and spend time on forum, maillist, even ASK on how to
> use/configure LibreOffice.

If we decide the only thing to ask on startup is for a choice of UI mode, we
could have the startup screen only contain that.

> We don't need to do hand-holding to walk folks through it--that's just
> insulting to even the average user.

I don't believe that UI mode selection is insulting hand-holding. Other ideas,
like choosing whether or not to show the sidebar, are silly hand-holding and I
would agree with you on that.

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