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Summary

Display a slideshow about the operating system during installation from the desktop CD.

Rationale

During the install off a live CD, there is a long wait during which the user can explore the live Ubuntu desktop. But many users simply wait for the copy and fix-up to complete, during which they see a nice progress bar. We would like to offer those users a nice slideshow, which could exhibit some of the exciting features of the new OS they are installing.

(Or, per Jeff Waugh, concentrate on showing benefits rather than features!)

Use cases

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Unresolved issues

BoF agenda and discussion

  • Any volunteers to create the slideshow images?
    • Sketch out some ideas. (What is the marketing aim of this? Should it be feature/app based or more general branding/marketing based? -kwwii)
    • Will probably need screenshots, so need a plan that can be executed or re-executed quite quickly after UI freeze
  • Technical implementation
    • Different flavours (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) will require different slideshow images, so they will probably need to go somewhere flavour-specific, either packaged or dropped in by cdimage.

    • Format? Originally the idea was Flash, but that suffers from technical constraints and bugs even with gstreamer's SWF support; a series of images would be a lot better than nothing, and would have the benefit of being easy to produce even by non-experts.


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