Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag den 11. Marts 2008 01:51:41 skrev Stanislav Visnovsky:
> Dňa Monday 10 March 2008 14:21:31 Martin Schlander ste napísal:
> > I think the sum total annoyance of 85% of users having to click "next",
> > is dwarfed by the annoyance of 15% of users with non-working hardware and
> > no clue what to do or what went wrong, because important information is
> > hidden from them.
>
> How is the information hidden? In fact, if you hardware does not work, it
> is pretty complicated to find out from the proposal screens. Your hardware
> will be:
>
> 1) misdetected - then, you need to be an expert to figure out

> 2) not detected at all - here, we might think about how to react in this
> case, but you are on your own again and you will need to pick up your sound
> card manually (I personally have no idea which chipset I'm using).

I'm mostly worried about graphics card/monitor settings - which was also a 
concern on the blog. I don't think you have to be an expert to know for 
example the best resolution or aspect ratio for your monitor. 

On the other hand the option to test the configuration was already removed on 
10.3...

If you're shown the hardware configuration screen at least you know which 
chipset _SUSE thinks_ you're using. 

Another benefit of the hardware configuration step is that you can blame the 
user for clicking next too fast when things go wrong. With the new layout 
only openSUSE is to blame for any problems, since it has assumed total 
control without letting the user know anything or have any say in what goes 
on.
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