Comment 53 for bug 149805

> We need to reiterate this to see which problem we are trying to solve.
> It was the one that a user wont find the slots from the beginning and
> therefore misses a lot.

That's only one part of the problem. The other reason for always
opening the menu at startup is that the user very likely wants to
change his presence information (his mood changed, he is doing
something else, he wants to set an avatar for that day, he wants to
log on with a specific presence status and message, etc. So the
reasoning behind my idea to automatically close the control panel and
to open it at startup is *comfort*:
1) Less clicks needed after Coccinella startup
2) The menu closes automatically after some time to use use the
available screen space as economically as possible so that many
contacts can be visible at the same time.

> And we don't want to fill up the main window with all slots.
> My suggestion is therefore: the initial vanilla state for first
> installation is to show the control panel open, but only display the
> mega presence slot and not any other. This makes it fairly similar to
> the present situation, but with the addition of the PEP stuff.
>
> So if the user doesn't close it, it wont disappear. And if he or she
> close it they figure out how to open it again. And if they start
> digging deeper, they'll find all the extra slots and how to control
> their display.

Stupid user do not digg deeper into software as they are afraid of
doing something wrong. They are afraid to break their computer. Only
geeks digg deeper...

> I think this is a fairly elegant way of solving the problem to keep UI
> very plain, but still retaining all the complexity underneath.

-1: stupid people may not see that you can add slots. Stupid people
however easily see how they can remove a slot (close button). When
they closed a slot and want to add it again at some time, they can
look around. Also, when there is only 1 slot in the control panel,
people may not see they can close the menu. If we by default show all
sexy slots, the user may look around for hiding all this stuff. When
he then accidentally hits the Spanish button to close the panel, the
satisfaction will be higher and the user will percept the control
panel as even more sexy (psychology).

So, I think it is better to show all sexy slots by default (2 slots
for the upcoming release):
* application status: not sexy
* megapresence: sexy
* micro blog: something that does not yet work is not sexy, should be
fully disabled in case it is not final in the upcoming release
* search people: sexy

> If we decided to implement your method it wouldn't be a good idea to
> show all the slots for newcomers anyway, so we need to pick one single
> slot that is the most basic.

-1 for picking only 1 slot: by default, *all* *sexy* slots should be
showed that add value for stupid users