| Takyoji | Has anyone thought of having Ubuntu Tour more "hands-on" whereas instead of screenshots, someone could make a linear recreation of the Ubuntu/GNOME desktop environment, and something step a person through a process of something (a VERY primitive example of what I'm thinking of is like a series of screenshots as imagemaps, with a specific area that's a link to the next screenshot which is of the next step) | 23:23 |
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| Takyoji | For example, like an eyeOS installation rethemed as Ubuntu and with imitations of the standard applications (Firefox, OpenOffice, The GIMP, etc); whereas the pseudo-applications wouldn't be a 100% recreation of the application, just a recreation of the UI steps a person has to do in order to complete a task. | 23:26 |
| Takyoji | I would love if there was a way to have tooltip balloon application to step a person through a real Ubuntu environment; though I'm not sure how practical such a thing would be. | 23:27 |
| Takyoji | When I initially heard of Ubuntu Tour, I had a feeling it was going to go something along that line. | 23:28 |
| Muscovy | That's an interesting idea. | 23:32 |
| Muscovy | Though I'm not sure how practical it would be when the user is at the desktop. | 23:32 |
| Muscovy | It would be really good as an online precursor to a live boot, though, | 23:33 |
| Takyoji | I was intending on doing an implementation myself; all web-based most likely; since it's REALLY easy to imitate standard user interface widgets with a little XHTML/CSS | 23:33 |
| Takyoji | I was also thinking that since it would be online, a person wouldn't have to install anything; AND a person could actually try the layout of Ubuntu a little with the guides out of curiosity without having to go get a LiveCD and modify their BIOS boot priority settings, etc. | 23:34 |
| Takyoji | But also having some of the content for Windows as well; so a person could learn how to do things on Windows, and then also curiously learn Ubuntu as well. | 23:35 |
| Takyoji | (as a potential lead-in) | 23:35 |
| Muscovy | One thing the tour lacks is explanations for people new to computers all together. | 23:35 |
| Takyoji | and that's what I want one of the goals to be | 23:35 |
| Takyoji | Is for it to be someone completely new to a computer and understand standard user interface concepts and so on | 23:36 |
| Takyoji | I have my mother as a test guinea pig; I've found some papercuts through observing my mother's usage of Ubuntu. | 23:36 |
| Muscovy | How much computer experience did she have previously? | 23:37 |
| Muscovy | In the next few months my grandmother is getting a computer, probably Ubuntu. | 23:38 |
| Muscovy | So I've been taking a look at explaining to a beginner. | 23:38 |
| Muscovy | I'm used to thinking about teaching someone who's used WIndows for ~8 years and took a few to understand it. | 23:39 |
| Takyoji | Her past computer experience was on XP, Win98, Win95; primarily email, but more recently more social networking and web browsing. | 23:50 |
| Takyoji | She's still trying to grasp the full concept of copy-paste yet. | 23:51 |
| Takyoji | for copying files off a camera | 23:51 |
| Takyoji | (rather than dumping them in F-Spot, which seems to convolute the process a little) | 23:52 |
| Muscovy | My mom's biggest problem is that she perceived everything as completely different. | 23:55 |
| Muscovy | So she basically had to re-learn things like file management. | 23:56 |
| Muscovy | Because she didn't really understand what her clicks meant. | 23:56 |
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