This came up during an extended VDG discussion yesterday.

We have avoided first-run wizards in Plasmashell for a variety of good reasons, but yesterday I and several others were able to come to agreement on the idea of a first-run wizard to tailor the system better to the user's physical needs, asking questions such as:

- "Are you left or right-handed?"
- "Are you red-green colorblind, or totally colorblind?"
- "Which text is more readable for you" [then we present images of text within a window at 9, 10, 11, and 12 pt, and the answer determines the default font size]
- "What is your primary language?"
-- And then a follow-up question: "What does your keyboard look like?" [then we present a visual assortment of keyboard layouts based on the user's answer to the language question, so they can select the right keyboard for their locale and hardware]


Basically the idea is that we *only* ask questions that the user is guaranteed to know the answer to because it's very personal to them. We don't ask what panel layout or animation style they want because those are questions that only technical experts can answer. But everyone knows whether they're right or left handed, how well they can see, etc.

It will require discipline to keep inappropriate questions out of the wizard, but I volunteer to crack that whip. :)