First boot experience in 8.2

[cscott]

This bug will track non-blocking issues related to first boot user experience.

For example, first-boot help messages, logical organization of activities in initial home screen, making sure the activities first clicked are likely to be rewarding (ie, not Terminal), etc.

[kimquirk]

I'd like to suggest that this trac item specifically refer to the Help Activity, which can be prominently available on the home screen (especially for G1G1 and builds that have 'default' set of activities).

The goal is to create one version of 'Help' that packages the www.laptop.org/start pages; a second version will update those pages to reflect the UI of 8.2.

[marco]

What is this ticket about?

[cscott]

It's a placeholder for now: I need to investigate whether there are any issues with the new Sugar UI with respect to the customizations our deployment countries want to make. Can they easily tag favorites, select mesh/grid as default favorites view, pre-arrange icons in the grid view? How is the help activity integrated, and does it need auto-start?

If you know of specific problems in these areas, please file new trac bugs and link them as blocking this one. Otherwise I'll file such bugs as I encounter problems. But I haven't gotten the cycles to characterize our current status on this issue yet.

[cscott]

Moving out to 8.2.1.