Make better use of the splash screen
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team: webapp
type: feature request
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
We previously had productivity tips during the splash screen, but they got removed during the redesign. We should consider adding these back and adding even more useful information.
Describe the behaviour you'd like
When I open a workspace the splash screen could show me:
- New features that have been introduced recently
- Old features that might not get enough attention
- Solutions to commonly asked questions
- Productivity tricks and tips
- Be more transparent about what is happening in the background (start phases, logs timings etc.)
- Themed gitpod logo / doodles, thanks for the idea @jankeromnes
cc: @julia-leyton @gtsiolis @svenefftinge
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the earlier productivity-tips issue and its redesign discussion linked in the description before choosing an implementation area. Define which splash-screen information should return, how recent features, tips, FAQs, and startup progress will be selected, and what completed behavior should show to workspace users.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100