On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 23:13 +0200, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/5/3 drew <d...@baseanswers.com>: > > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 22:29 +0200, RGB ES wrote: > >> 2012/5/3 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>: > >> > On 03/05/2012 Rob Weir wrote: > >> >> > >> >> One thing we don't have any more is that registration dialog from > >> >> OpenOffice.org. Does anyone recall what that used to do? > >> > > >> > > >> > If I recall correctly, in different periods it was used for a user survey > >> > (and this would be a meaningful suggestion for the future maybe), for > >> > registering accounts at Sun and for registering accounts at Oracle. > >> > > >> > You can get an idea of the survey at > >> > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Phase_1:OOoUser_Survey > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Andrea. > >> > >> It was also used to register the user "with him/herself": The > >> registration process helped the user to fill the fields under Tools → > >> Options → OpenOffice.org → User data. Now, for most new users that > >> info will remain empty. While not a problem by itself, this means for > >> example that documents will always open on the first page and not on > >> the last edited point, because the user data do not match the document > >> author. > >> > >> Regards > > > > Hi Ricardo > > > > That is a very good point IMO. I think it's fair to look at that as the > > loss of an, optional, feature - this step of entering user information. > > > > I'm tempted to ask you to use the issue tracker, entering the > > description and marking the issue as Request for Enhancement. > > > > Not that we should have the on-line registration, but rather to add a > > (strong?) prompt during installation, with the intent to have the user > > enter that information. > > > > What do you think? > > > > //drew > > > > > > Instead of asking for this on install time, I think we need to define > a "first run wizard" or something like that. It could be a simple > document that opens on first run with a "thanks for using this > program" message and a couple of buttons to perform some basic > customizations, like adding the user info. I'm too short of sleep > today to build a good feature request, but I'll try to think on > something during the weekend. Ideas are welcomed ;) > > Regards
Howdy Ricardo Wonderful - I changed the subject (as you see). I was thinking also, prompted from another email just now that pointed to a 3.4.1 feature request page, that there is a 4.0 feature request page on the cwiki also.. per change that is an even better vector to start with. Catch you later, //drew
