[haiku-development] Re: Preparing Alpha 1
- From: "Remi Grumeau" <remi.grumeau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:30:34 +0200
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> Fwiw I don't. ;-)
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> 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.
+1
http://remi.grumeau.free.fr/haiku/haiku-alpha1.jpg
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> 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 also.
So this could be a link to the forum ?
Rémi
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