Azerion
Welcome welcome,
as some of you all may know I am very interested in the installation of openSUSE. Big changes won't happen for 10.2 but I saw some things that prabably are easy to change. I also found a bug that I will report after I clicked "send". No more bla bla, let's go!
1.] If you check the chechbox for addons and you add the addon-cd, the actual addon's are not shown in a patterngroup. That is not weird cause there is no natural pattern between the packages from the Addon-cd but people do not download the CD for fun. They download it because of Acrobat, Flash and some more.
The problem is that with the behavior from the installer at this moment Flash for example is not checked and you can only find it by search or bij Installation-source. To bad....people will expect it to be installed.
You're right - could you file a bug against the component "patterns"? I'll take care of it for the next alpha.
2.] Please show after the restart a window/message in the mainwindow that you have to wait. At this moment you see only the mouse-loading-icon and that stopped. I am no noob so I checked top right away, but people will think that the install hangs cause we are used to have the mouse not freezed when a progam does. So only top was my indication that everything was fine.
That's worth a bug report as well.
3.] This is pure image-building. The screen from the installation is too 'busy'. I have talked about it at this ML and I know there won't be big changes as I said earlier, but small things can change a lot. This is only about the "Package Installation:-screen cause that was the moment I checkd the interface, but I guess some point can be applied to all the screens without trouble.
- remove the line under Package Installation. We can live without it cause the title is far above the rest so no splitter is needed.
- connect the tabs to the inner-screen. At this moment they hover above it so there is a line between the tabs and the inner-screen. Everything seems much slicker when that splitline is gone.
- remove the border around the slide. It is just another border and it does not make sens at all. Borders should only be used to 'order' things if without borders it would be a mess. Trust me, I can see the diference between the progress-bar and the slidetext without being confused :P
- Make the inner-screen a bit more colored or a little bit lighter. At thos moment it is spartanian in the same color as the rest of the screen. It looks awful.
- Some more comments about the slides but that will come some other day. I think that the presentation is going to show at more CD's then only at CD1 so there will be a discussion about that anyway.
I'll talk with the developers what's possible and look at it myself as well.
4.] Just a little point but the theme have to be changed anyway I think (cause of those tabs). If there is a little message-window it does have some lines in the border. Probably to show that the window can be rezised but it looks weird if there is a little window where all those stripes are 2cm from their neigbours.
So, that was it. I know I am a crybaby :P but I think those little things will make the YaST-installer much slicker and it seems to be really small things to change. I will report point 2 to Bugzilla and another bug (mouting crypted disk gives an error when checked as "not mount at boot", if you first mount and the check it it is fine).
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