Azerion
This is a mail that I send to Andreas some days ago: It is a reply so the start is not like a normal startpost.
Thanks for resending it here. Sorry, personal email sometimes takes time to answer :-(
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People are confused by seeing Httpserver, DNS-server and so on in YaST. YaST is great but at this moment it becomes 'unorganised' (posted a bugzilla on that some month ago) in the way that it offers to much that is not needed (and not properly bundeld). Same thing is the case at this moment in SL 10.1 with ZEN (not in one screen but 3 apps)
Another thing about YaST is the following:
At this moment YaST is used to install SL/oS. Looking at other distro's and OS's it is great and it works. But it is not _that_ good looking and not _that_ simple and fast to use. Maybe an idea for 10.3 to pimp the install and change some things....
Idea 1: Do not use 'windows' like we do use it now. It should be a fullscreen 'background'. That way you can change the background of the installer every release and that would be nice. Look at the links and scoll that page. That looks nice to mr. Joe Average!
http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Screenshot_Submissions#Freespire_Welcome... Something I liked - we even discussed this over a year ago and then other things become more important :-(. Could you add this to the wishlist, please?
Idea 2: Let the user select what screens he/she wants to use default: default/expert. On every screen in default there will be an option to see expert-options but you don't have to make the choice every time.
The problem is that most people want one expert option but not all. So, allowing the choice is needed - but on the other hand I think that with our proposals we do something similar as well.
Idea 3: This one is stolen from Vista. Drop those radiobuttons (round things) and replace it with an nice arrow that directly reponse.
Idea 4: Do not show more information the needed in default. I don't care what step I have had and which one will come next. So the progress-tree can be dropped in default (maybe a little button to show and give the opportunity to go back some steps to change a setting). When SL is installing you see stats
This is controversial - usability tests show that the progress bar is important.
about each disk, packages, size and so on. The only thing the customer wants to now is : - how far are we in total? - how long will it take from now on? - when do I need to insert another cd?
[======== ] < no numbers! Estimated: 12 minutes Next CD: 2 minutes
Under that there is a lot of space for a slideshow I guess.
We do have the slideshow.
Idea 5: Take care of that you show a lot of nice things in the slideshow. 3 buttons: prev, next, diashow. It uses some space on the disk but new users will welcome it....
What exactly do you suggest here?
Do you have some comments on it. Some point have reached the ML and bugzilla before but I guess this time I want to make a mockup if there is a chance that it will be redesigned.
No chance for 10.2 to do fundamental changes but a mockup is something I would like to see. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126