Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : > >> And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made >> local. >> > Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do > when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This > practice mades me think of Internet Explorer defaulting to msn.com - > well, much less ugly since our page is not full of ads and is using a > "real" search engine. > > Wouldn't it be better to provide a page with help and informations about > Ubuntu and some links like: "Set your homepage to google.com"/"to > yahoo.com"/"to a custom page" ? > We should keep in mind that people install an OS not to think about this > OS but to work or surf; let's not be intrusive but help them to find > easily what they want. > > What do you think? > >
I tend to agree. I can see the point of a start page with more information about Ubuntu and such, there's an argument for it... but even so, do we really need a custom search on that start page? What's the point of having a search bar on that page anyways? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
