Welcome Center
Welcome Center is a short tour of SonicDE. It opens by itself the first time you log in. To open it again, find Welcome Center in your application launcher, or run plasma-welcome.
Use Next and Back to move between pages. Skip closes the tour at any time, and Finish closes it on the last page.
The pages
- Welcome: Introduces SonicDE, or your distribution if it adds its own text, and can tell you more about both.
- Access the Internet: Shows the network widget so you can connect. Once you're connected, it says You're connected. If network support isn't installed, it says so and asks you to report that to your distribution.
- Simple by Default: Explains the desktop, panel, Application Launcher, Task Manager, System Tray, Digital Clock and Peek at Desktop. Click an item in the picture to read about it.
- Powerful When Needed: Has cards for features you may want later: Keyboard Shortcuts, Overview, KRunner, KDE Connect, Activities and Vaults. Click a card to read about it.
- Share Anonymous Usage Information: Lets you choose how much anonymous usage information to share. You can also change this later in System Settings.
- Enjoy It!: Has links to the SonicDE community and to help, and to the Supporting Members list.
Your distribution can add its own pages before the last one.
Note: KDE Connect isn't part of SonicDE. Its page offers to install it, if your distribution provides it.
For more about the features on these cards, see Keyboard shortcuts, Overview, KRunner, Activities and Vaults.
After an update
After an upgrade to a new major or minor version of SonicDE, or a beta, Welcome Center shows a page about the release when you log in. It doesn't appear for smaller bug-fix updates.
The page can link to the release announcement and load a preview of it, which downloads it from the internet. Load preview automatically does that whenever the page appears, except on a metered connection. Turn off Show after SonicDE is updated if you don't want this page after future updates.
Running it from the command line
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
plasma-welcome |
Shows the tour. |
plasma-welcome --post-update |
Shows the page about the current release. |
plasma-welcome --pages <pages> |
Shows only the pages you list, separated by commas, by their internal names. For example, --pages PowerfulWhenNeeded.qml. |
plasma-welcome --live-environment |
Shows the shorter tour for a live system, with its installer page and without the usage information page. |
Settings
Welcome Center's settings are in ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc, in the [General] group:
| Key | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
LastSeenVersion |
Empty | The last version you've seen. While it's empty, the tour opens when you log in. |
ShowUpdatePage |
true |
Whether to show the page about the release after an upgrade. |
AutomaticUpdatePreview |
false |
Whether to load the announcement preview automatically. |