[haiku-development] Re: Preparing Alpha 1
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:25:52 +0200 CEST
Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 19.08.2008 um 18:53 schrieb François Revol:
> > Or how I tried to do on that fake cd cover art:
> > http://revolf.free.fr/z/test_gp_haiku_cd.png
> Fwiw I don't. ;-)
>
> I don't think we need a wallpaper with an ugly Alpha notice. Haiku
> should be appealing to people, not annoying them with too much
> "Alpha"
> notices. I'd be okay with a message box on first boot and a permanent
> notice in AboutSystem and some menu items and/or desktop links/files.
>
> Other systems sometimes use different wallpapers so that by colours
> of
> some variation you can see what version it likely is. For instance,
> Fedora 9 codenamed Sulphur has yellow sulphor on the wallpaper while
> Fedora 7 or 8 has balloons instead. Unfortunately "Walter" is not as
> elegant to depict!
> Windows betas have the version/build number in the lower right corner
> as text on top of the desktop background, not too nice.
> What about changing the colour of the Deskbar feather for the Alpha?
>
> Concerning the original topic, I'd advice against a "support" email
> address. It's an Alpha with no support in the sense of Commercial
> Support and I doubt the Web team wants to answer tons of "x is not
> working on my box" mails. Better direct people to the existing
> channels where they can get timely community assistance (IRC, mailing
> lists, Trac).
+1.
Bye,
Axel.
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