Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
> | On Thursday 10 April 2008 09:28:56 pm Bryen wrote:
> | > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:19 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> | [...]
> (replying to Federico, Bryen and Rajko ;))
>
> | > > What if instead we made that screen in the installer be something like:
> | > >     What do you want your desktop to look like?
> | > >     +------------+   +------------+   +------------+
> | > > |GNOME screen|    | KDE3 screen|    | KDE4 screen|
> | > >    |      shot  |    |      shot  |    |      shot  |
> | > >     +------------+    +------------+    +------------+
> | > >                     [Abort]  [Continue]
> | > >
> | > > Those should be real screenshots of our stock blank desktop for each
> | > > desktop environment.  Users will then be able to make a more informed
> | > > decision.
> | [...]
> | > I like Federico's idea, although I don't think it will be completely
> | > sufficient in giving a newbie user the best choice.  So, to add to
> | > his proposal...
> | I like idea too. Taking that there is graphical time zone selection
> | this would be improvement in right direction.
>
> Hmh.. not sure. I think it is a very good idea and as Rajko wrote, given
> we have a graphical TZ selector, we can have screenshots here as well.

I really like the ideas.  But newbies may be very confused if they have to
much choice.

> But:
> * ncurses installer:
> We still have the issue for the ncurses installer, although it is much
> less of a problem there as it is used a lot less frequently (do we have
> any idea how many people use the ncurses installer ?)
> Either experts or people who don't have a supported GPU... in both
> situations, a simple list in whatever order will do, and possibly even
> with a preselection of the "text pattern".

I use the ncurses installer a lot.  I do a lot of old systems.  Also, I
need to do installs from a local rsynced tree.  It seems I always have to
do them via a ncurses install to begin and then it goes to a graphical.  I
use NFS mounted directories.


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