Hi, In my opinion the role-based selection that SLE has does not fit openSUSE at all. Instead, I suggest keeping the current appearance and just change a few things: Add screenshots: Large enough to be distinguishable. Also with a longer description next to it, to make the decision easier. No "other" selection: Instead make the view scrollable, the usual GNOME + KDE + Nothing triplet on top is visible by default. IMO that's more fair. Also, it makes it possible to add *all* desktops we currently ship in the official repos (which only makes sense for the NET install and for the DVD with online repos active). No "Choose Patterns" button: Instead, "Minimal System" (always on the bottom, it's for experts) can be selected and the package selection edited later. Otherwise there are two ways of achieving the same result, which is IMO misleading. Add version information, if possible: Currently there is no easy way to get that information except looking at the packages directly or installing the system... Cheers, Fabian Am Freitag, 10. Februar 2017, 14:21:14 CET schrieb Roman Bysh:
On 10/02/17 02:57 AM, Josef Reidinger wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:48:48 +0100 "Carlos E. R."
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On 2017-02-09 18:03, Daniele wrote:
Il 09/02/2017 12:23, Josef Reidinger ha scritto:
Hi Factory users and developers, I am working on providing a new desktop selection dialog in installation as specified in https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/14936 . So after some tweaking and thinking I use roles functionality dialog we already had in SLES, just with desktop selection. It will allows us in future more potential tuning for specified desktops.
You can see result in https://github.com/yast/skelcd-control-openSUSE/pull/73 ( screenshots and videos ). What do you think about it? I welcome any feedback. I add there to comparison also old work-flow where is one screen with online repos which we currently integrate in desktop selection.
Thanks for any feedback
Josef
HI, I don't like the "role" word for a desktop selection.
IMHO, Gnome/kde -> same role with different DE.
Thanks for feedback.
Likewise, I do not understand why using the word "role".
So what you suggest as better name? or do you agree with simon suggestion lower, to use Desktop(GNOME) and Desktop(KDE) as role?
Also, it is not clear what happens when clicking "custom". Will I have to play with choosing the appropriate patterns, or will there be a simple tick to choose XFCE, LXDE, minimal X, etc?
I hope it is clear from video. You pick pattern there which fits your needs. It is targeted for slightly more experienced users, that know what they want ( in video I choose LXDE if I remember correctly ) and it is pattern based, so it allows easy future addition of additional repos.
Another behaviour that should be allowed would be choosing both KDE and Gnome (and more) right at the first install (without going to patterns).
I worry that it would confuse users even more. E.g. which desktop manager to pick? what will be default? and some others together do not make much sense, like text based server and kde together.
Josef,
Under Custom, can you please add Cinnamon. Ever since Linux Mint introduced Cinnamon it has been a very popular DE selection.
Roman
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