Here’s a simple way to help promote Haiku-
Change the Deskbar logo from the blue leaf to the actual haiku logo. This way anytime someone posts a screenshot, the name of the OS is right there. Thats the way BeOS had it as well.
P.S. I’m willing to join the promo team if interested.
-Shaka
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Agreed. One more reason we should change it - I think the ArsTechnica reviewer had a hard time figuring out how to open the Deskbar since he didn’t recognise the blue leaf. Most OSes have their logo as the button to open their launcher/start menu etc. since it’s the most recognisable symbol, and thus it would be good for Haiku to adopt this change to be more in line with other operating systems and to help new users.
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Personally I disagree; I think the leaf is pretty classy as it is. We may, however, want to actually launch the Quick Tour pages on the first start, so that people read them and discover the Deskbar that way.
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Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing after reading several posts speaking about discoverability of menu, repositories, usage, etc. Remember the way Be would present you with the welcome page in Netpositive upon first boot? Something like that would introduce Webpositive along with showing the QuickTour.