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[Roy]

Mind if I speak up?

If I don't have any changes to make (screen resolution, keyboard, etc.) via your proposed GUI, can I just close the box with the corner x ?

If I must click on "Okay" to successfully run Puppy with the default selections, would it be better to change "Click okay to save your change" to something like "Click okay to save settings"? The word 'settings' would lead me to believe that I must click "Okay" with changes -- or without changes.

Just an odd-ball perspective....

-Roy

P.S. Shinobar, thank you for all of your work. Really enjoy Lupq!

[shinobar]

[shinobar]

Now a working model of the first run dialog is available open for your test and discussion. See the top of this topic.
Install the firstrun-0.8.4d-lucu.pet on Luci-230 or on Lupu-51x.
From the virtual terminal, type: first-run.sh
There are no launchers on the menu nor at the desktop icons.

For precise test, run Lupu-230 with RAM mode(pfix=ram), install the attached, and restart X-server.
The dialog pops up every time restarting X-server even you click 'OK' if the lupu runs under RAM mode.

NOTE: It also replaces the countrywizard.

[Lobster]

[shinobar]

[Lobster]

Can it be programmed so if you click the x top right it does not reappear?
If I click that x it means I do not want the program to open.
If I want it to run, I will go find it in the menu . . .

Hope that makes sense

[playdayz]

Shinobar, Looking great. Thank you for all the work.

What do people think? I really think there ought to be a button for CCE on the first-run dialog (as in 8d1), but I am willing to be convinced . After the CCE (xorgwizard) runs then the first-run dialog would reappear.

I am just thinking out loud, but if we give instructions about running it from the menu we might as well provide a button.

CCE could only set the video driver--not anything else (country, timezone, etc., as xorgwizard traditionally does) then one would see the first run dialog again and could change anything else. Or CCE could set everything. Which?

The reason for CCE is that we have 2 ways to set the video driver--the auto config has been working very well it seems--but xorgwizard CCE is a most capable backup.

One high priority here is to divorce setting the Keyboard Layout from running CCE--because some people have found that they need to change the keyboard but running CCE screws up something else (synaptics touchpad). That is definitely going to be accomplished, no matter what else. Shinobar has a proposal that could fix the problem with synaptics and CCE.

People will only see this first-run dialog once, but it is the first thing they will see, so thanks for all the feedback. Or as Lobster says "Personalize Settings".

If someone closes it with the X in the upper right corner--that would mean they do not want to change anything--so it should not reappear--just a little more complicated programming, eh?

[shinobar]

Thanks playdayz for giving me such an exiting job.

We can put a 'XorgWizard' button(, not 'CCE') in the 'Screen size' frame, like 0.8d1.
(I think the CCE devorced with keyboard is the same as the xorgwizard, right?)
In this case, we needs more discussion...
What happens if I choose en_GB, UTC, uk, 1024x768, then click 'XorgWizard' instead of 'OK'?

My thought, all the country settings are applied but the screen size ignored, and go through XorgWizard.
Of course the dialog should pop up again after the XorgWizard performed.

[playdayz]

[bigpup]

The new test version looks good. V0.8d4

Because you are able to change resolution. It should make the change and bring you back to decide if that is what you want.
I think you need an apply button and an Ok button.
Apply- all settings are made. You can see effect.
Ok- you are happy. Close program window.

[shinobar]

[don570]

Here's a suggestion for you to think about.

What about giving the user a picture (gif or png) of the keyboard
that you choose. Maybe a button labelled 'Picture of keyboard chosen'.
It would allow the user to see the position of the keys which can
be radically different from the US international keyboard.

If pictures take up to much diskspace then a ' text ' picture
could be an alternative

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[playdayz]

Nevermind. I am building a luci-231 with version 8d4.

[shinobar]

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