Getting Started

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Getting Started

Help a new user get started in GNOME 3.

Designers

WilliamJonMcCann, AllanDay, JakubSteiner

Objectives

Prioritise things that will be interesting to new users
Only cover the basics first
Avoid lots of text - show don't tell

WebOS

A video plays that introduces some concepts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkD2oQUMW_g

Android (Jelly Bean)

A video which shows the (slightly buggy) initial setup of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Of note is the integrated tutorial that he mentions toward the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=A7ZY5g3DqkA#t=267s until 5:35

iOS

None

OS X

Versions before 10.7 used an introduction video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLDniiLLjz4

In 10.7 this was replaced with Setup Assistant:

http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/ss/Perform-A-Clean-Install-Of-Os-X-Lion-On-Your-Mac_4.htm

Windows XP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGhyDSfu_n4&feature=related

Windows 7

Online tour http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/tour

Ubuntu

Introduces some concepts during the installation process
Provides an online tour http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/

Google+

Discussion

I think there are basically two ways this can break down: Show or Tell. Show can be done indirectly or directly, by live demonstration or by "video".

Some things the user may want to do or know how to do:

Launching applications
Switch tasks
Using Workspaces
Use the system search
Link to online services
Responding to messages
Change the Wallpaper
Change the time / date / timezone
Browse the web
Install software
Chat with friends
Play music
Import/upload photos
Printing

Each video will also include a textual version of the documented procedure below the embedded video.

Some questions that a new user might wonder about at 'first contact' with GNOME 3:

Where are my apps ?
How do I launch a web browser ?
Which apps are currently running (Alt-Tab, workspaces) ?
Where's the menu in this thing (after launching gcalctool, before discovering the app menu) ?
Am I online (learn to read the status icons) ?
I just set up my google account - where's my mail (when coming in via gnome-initial-setup) ?

Tentative Design

Getting started is a special page in the system help. It is accessible from the desktop help home page, and is automatically opened if the user selects "Take a tour" from Initial Setup.

Intro Video

Before yelp opens with the getting started page as a first thing after clicking "Take a Tour" at the end of the Initial Setup, a brief video is played back. This video introduces one of the ways to launch applications (using a keyboard), specifically the help/yelp itself. The Getting Started page will actually include instructions on how to launch applications using other input methods as well.

http://jimmac.fedorapeople.org/gnome3/getting-started/gnome-de_DE-yelp-intro0001-0535.webm

Embedded Videos

Some key tasks will be demonstrated with a short animation played back embedded inside the yelp page. While the amount of text will be minimal, there will be a limited number of translated versions of the videos, falling back to English for most.

http://jimmac.fedorapeople.org/gnome3/getting-started/gnome-en_US-launching-apps-0001-0718.webm