Welcome and What's New screen

[danyill]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As a user of OpenSCD I don't feel I know what's changing as the releases roll by, and the minimal UI design sometimes means I don't notice new and cool things that I want to know about. It's not obvious from the Changelog how to get to the new features sometimes.

Describe the solution you'd like

(I don't expect this to be a priority soon but it recurs in the back of my mind and I must make it go away by writing it down)

I'd like an "on first loading" screen dialogue which appeared to users after each "official release" of OpenSCD which drew attention to user-facing changes. It could be disabled with a check box at the bottom and could include embedding of images, links to e.g. YouTube videos. Ideally, we could write the content for this as part of the release process (in a language like Markdown) or reduce it from the Changelog.

I'd also like to be able to include a "Tips" screen dialog which would pop up each time OpenSCD loaded and would provide little tips and tricks and hints (randomly) like:

• Did you know OpenSCD has three subscription editors? Here's how they work
• You can Cleanup control blocks which don't have datasets by doing the following...
• You can enable and disable functionality by going to Menu > Extensions
• Here's how Undo and Redo works in OpenSCD (yes, some of my users have not noticed this!)
• We even have cool keyboard shortcuts
• We have a dark theme (even if it needs a little work!)
• Come join our chat, we are not very scary.
• Please log issues, we really do care, select this template and tell us what you need.
• Pro mode allows you to drop into the XML at a moment in many screens
• You can now see device capability by clicking on this in the IED editor
• We fixed this long-standing annoying user grip, hurrah

Requirements:

• Tips and Version Update can be enabled and disabled (maybe from a settings cog). When you do this you are told how to get them back.
• You can see the previous Tip or Version Update information by clicking next or previous (because sometimes you don't have time and want to come back to these the next time OpenSCD loads "Oh yeah, I meant to look at that...").
• Ability to write these with a lightweight markup language (probably Markdown ).
• Ability to embed images, and link or embed videos (e.g. Youtube).

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[danyill]

I think this is still relevant.

[pascalwilbrink]

Nice enhancement :) Would displaying the CHANGELOG.md be enough, or do you want something like https://introjs.com/ ?