Re: Initial GUI startup message

[Torsten]

On 24.09.2013 18:02, John W. Eaton wrote:
> When the GUI starts for the first time, the following message is displayed:
> 
>   Welcome to Octave!  (in a large bold font)
> 
>   This is the development version of Octave with the first official GUI.
> 
>   You seem to run Octave GUI for the first time on this computer.
>   This assistant will help you to configure this software
>   installation.  Click 'Finish' to write a configuration file and
>   launch Octave GUI.
> 
> I propose to change this to
> 
>   Welcome to GNU Octave  (still in a large bold font)
> 
>   You seem to be using the Octave graphical interface for the first
>   time on this computer.  Click 'Finish' to write a configuration file
>   and launch Octave GUI.
> 
>   The configuration file is stored in FILENAME.  If that file exists,
>   you will not see this dialog when Octave starts again.
> 
>   For more information about Octave, visit http://octave.org.
> 
> 
> It would be nice to make the URL a link that will open a browser.  It
> seems that should be easy to do with Qt, but I'm not sure how.  Can
> anyone help with that?
> 
> Is there anything else we should add here?  A direct link to the
> documentation?  A direct link to some kind of tutorial information?

I have pushed changeset
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c8c0dff02538
with a new welcome wizard and added some hints to the online
documentation and the documentation browser of the gui.

Torsten