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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/foo

• Created: 2006-02-25 by Garyu

• Contributors: Garyu, JackWasey

• Packages affected:

Summary

Display daily tips for helping new (and experienced) users make the most of their Ubuntu system.

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

I have made a bash script using zenity that works. It would, however, be better with a real "Tip of the day" application which could start on first boot and then have the checkbox "Do not display this again" added.

Implementation

Code

#!/bin/bash # # Ubuntu tips # # Displays a random "daily tip" in a dialog box when called # Usage: "sh ubuntutips.sh < inputfilename" # # Author: Dan-Erik Lindberg (Garyu in the Ubuntu forums) # 2006-02-22 #

# Load all lines in an array and count how many rows there are maxrows=0 while read line do

• number=${line:0:6} content[number]=${line:7} let "maxrows += 1"

done

# Reseed random generator and select tip to display RANDOM=$$ thistip=$RANDOM let "thistip %= maxrows"

# Randomize tip from file and display using zenity for numb in $(seq 0 $maxrows) do

• if [ $numb = $thistip ] then
  • zenity --title "Ubuntu daily tip" --info --text "${content[numb]}"
  fi

done

exit 0

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

• It would be great to think about using this as a way of including information from: EthicalInfo.

• i18n, please!

Forum page with sample tips in a textfile

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=768965#post768965

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