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--- Comment #21 from Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-05-05 10:05:50 MST 
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(In reply to comment #20 from Martin Schmidkunz)
> So why not display the "warning your data will be lost" within the 
> installation proposal?

Because this would be very misleading at that point? We'd need extensive
explanations what data might be lost. "Formatting /dev/hda1 (Windows)" is
already there and (IIRC) in red.

And you you imply not posting a final confirmation dialog at all?
I don't think we should or might want to do that. There needs to be a final
confirmation before we do possibly destructive changes.

> Either below the heading or (what would make more sense) in the partitioning
> part of the proposal. Maybe also in read and "warning" typed bold.

..and blinking, and with a bright black-and-yellow danger sign with a skull...
;-)

Well, seriously, we should reserve that kind of thing for critial error
situations. Really performing the Linux installation during the Linux
installation does _not_ qualify for that IMHO. ;-)


BTW I recall similar discussions years ago: Some people wanted the "we are
really going to install now" confirmation to be much more emphasized, and
others ridiculed exactly that, naming it the "warning, you are going to install
SuSE" dialog for that reason.


I fear this discussion is increasingly moving off topic. Remember, it began
with button order...


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