Difference between revisions of "User:Alex Ionescu/Alex's 0.3.0 'User Wow Factor' Ideas"

Revision as of 20:41, 16 August 2005

Here are some totally non-technical (or easy to implement) ideas to make 0.3.0 much more user-friendly, even if only on the surface:

Ship with Freeldr timeout set to 0. Freeldr is both ugly, overly-confusing for true newbies, and makes booting seem longer.

Boot at 800x600 instead of 640x480. Fallback if impossible. Or let user choose form a dropdown list.
Prettify the Wizard a bit ==> Use XP-Style Wizard (all that's needed is the large backdrop app, the dialog can stay on top)
Install some basic apps, like the mozilla control, notepad, calculator, simple mail-program and some game.

Boot with a nice desktop wallpaper... something really catchy.
Boot with a readme file on the desktop, as well as icons for My Computer, My Network Places, Recycle Bin and IBrowser icon. They should all open the appropriate shell namespace.
Support adding new shortcuts to the desktop.
Start menu should be prettified a bit as well. Make some stuff bigger.
Use a CONSISTENT ICON SET!
Center taskbar buttons... this has been a bug in explorer ever since it exists!
Fix icon loading so that icons show up right in the Title Bar/TaskBar Bug 475
Support transparent text labels for desktop icons.

...more to come...

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 * Boot at 800x600 instead of 640x480. Fallback if impossible. Or let user choose form a dropdown list.
 * Prettify the Wizard a bit ==> Use XP-Style Wizard (all that's needed is the large backdrop app, the dialog can stay on top)
-* Install some basic apps, like the mozilla control, notepad, calculator, simple mail-program.
+* Install some basic apps, like the mozilla control, notepad, calculator, simple mail-program and some game.
 == First Boot and forward ==