Maybe we can bring back the image of our splash screen somehow (#89)? The splash screen was liked by some users: #360

Possibly, an example library should be displayed with some example entries and example groups to show the power of JabRef?

Atom cycles through tips/tricks when no file is opened. This is really nice.

I think we do not need the splash screen again.

Tips and tricks would be very nice! There are so many features of JabRef that people are not aware of (which recent emails clearly have shown).

Or something like this:

👍

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35239420/display-label-if-tabpane-has-no-tabs

It should be possible to create an example data base:

For new users, an example lib would be good. It should be named example.bib and showing some features. Maybe a howto. Showing groups etc.

(old issue: https://github.com/koppor/jabref/issues/374)

complex.bib from testresources?

Offered default preferences:

• I am a "I don't care user" and want all cool features activated
• I am a pro-user wanting to manage BibTeX files only and thus do not want JabRef to do fancy stuff (reefs Deactivate fulltextsearch as default #9491)

Welcome screen if no library is open

(might happen if all libraries are closed and JabRef restarted)

It is not the same, something leightweight (see below)

Is this same-same as walkthrough? No, we remove preferences setting ("full text search", "include telemetry", ... ) after first close.

Welcome walkthrough

Welcome "screen" on first start (after installation) showing features, offering sensible defaults, ...

Please don't put too much information on the welcome screen. It should help people getting started (first users) or provide shortcuts to the most commonly used features (existing users).

As a datapoint (verified by user research as described in microsoft/vscode#63152), VS code moved from the busy old version

to the more minimal new page

I would argue that for us the simple "Open / create library" plus a list of recent libraries is sufficient as well. Maybe add a link to our docs, since our user interface is definitely not as self explanatory as the one of vscode.

For new users, VScode has a nice walkthrough but I don't see us implementing something like this soon (given our manpower, but maybe this would be a nice gsoc project?):

With "Welcome screen on first start (after installation)", I meant the "walkthrough" by VS.Code. I had a single page in mind, but a walkthrough is better, because of the different areas we cover. A quick implementation could have it on one page though.

For the walkthrough, we IMHO need experienced JabRef users, to really cover all features.

I move this discussion to another place to focus here on the "welcome screen"

Also think of the empty database case

However, this is handled at JabRef#384.

Hi, I am a first-time contributor, can I be assigned to this issue? I am a university student whose assignment requires me to contribute to open-source projects.

@u7229988-Rabie Yes, go ahead. Do that what tobias suggested at https://github.com/koppor/jabref/issues/96#issuecomment-1369502257

I would argue that for us the simple "Open / create library" plus a list of recent libraries is sufficient as well. Maybe add a link to our docs, since our user interface is definitely not as self explanatory as the one of vscode.

@u7229988-Rabie Yes, go ahead. Do that what tobias suggested at #96 (comment)

I would argue that for us the simple "Open / create library" plus a list of recent libraries is sufficient as well. Maybe add a link to our docs, since our user interface is definitely not as self-explanatory as the one of vscode.

Thank you for assigning me this issue.

Hello, can anyone suggest the design of the welcome page? For Instance, what kind of information do the maintainers want me to add on the welcome screen (anything particular)? I.e, buttons linking to other pages, information regarding Jabref etc.

Thank you.

Something like this:

I am running the latest version of Gradle (8.4). However, I am still getting "Gradle Deprecated problems". The error suggests that I should be using Gradle 9.0. Can anyone please suggest how I can solve this error? I think Gradle 8.4 is the latest Gradle version.

Thank you

Please use the latest version of java to run jabref as described in the documentation (https://devdocs.jabref.org/getting-into-the-code/guidelines-for-setting-up-a-local-workspace/intellij-12-build.html)

Note that the most recent version of java is 21.0.1

@calixtus jdk 21 is not yet working with gradle . You need 20