On 5/17/18, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can the ‘startup wizard’ be extended to help with making the all-in-one
>> image not get overwritten? tim suggests Very Strongly Encouraging the user
>> to save the image immediately so that the default image can be locked.
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> New users' first experience upon launching Squeak should be an
> immediate commencement of their journey to discovery and wonderment,
> not a tedious and meaningless (to them) message that tasks
> them with some chore they couldn't possibly care about at that point.
> Many would bail right then and there.  Personally, I think most users
> that would use a system like this would know about files and folders
> and would simply re-unzip it, but if you feel strongly the system
> should hold their hand then lets actually hold it by handling it for
> the user *automatically*.   A tweak to the launcher scripts included
> in the All-In-One.  Simply change the script to make a copy of the
> "master" and then launch the copy.  If  the copy already exists (i.e.,
> from last time), launch it instead of copying it over.  Then, we
> simply include a "factory-reset" script which deletes the copy.  Done.

+1
Looks like a very useful enhancement of the user experience.

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> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene
> <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Excellent.
>> Thanks !
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>> On 16/05/2018, 15:09, "Craig Latta" <craig at blackpagedigital.com> wrote:
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>>>
>> Hi all--
>>
>>      The notes for the 2018-05-16 Squeak board meeting are at:
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>>
>>> https://tinyurl.com/y7vflrcz (docs.google.com)
>>
>>      Thanks for any
>>> feedback!
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>>
>>      Greetings on behalf of your Squeak board of directors,
>>
>>> Craig
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