I was talking with Brian about which information we'd like to collect from the usability tests, and anticipating the various personas that might come to take the test (and, eventually, possibly use the installer). One such persona involves a low-to-medium experience user who is typically a Windows user. This person may or may not have installed Windows or Linux in the past, but is most likely to depend on the system guessing sane defaults, and may hit a usability snag if they don't. This is fine, if the system does indeed guess correctly, the only involvement required (and likely the most complicated interaction they'll faced) from them during the install would probably be from the partitioner (which I know we're working to improve). The Windows installer in particular glosses over the partioning, as its default involves using your whole hard drive as a single partition. I was trying to figure out how to synergize the sort of supportive, generally-non-technical install that this person would need with the sort of hands-on, tiny-detail install that a more advanced user might need or want. One idea for a compromise I came up with would be a screen at the beginning of the install, with a series of checkboxes to choose those components that you wanted to use during the install. These components can range from "Tweak Hardware", or "Install Additional Packages" to "Set Theme" -- and, short of a disaster, only those options which are selected will be presented to the user. For a custom install option, we could even have some of the more likely ones pre-selected." I include "Set Theme", because, particularly for the nontechnical user, customization (which, in my opinion, also includes the smooth installation of additional software via a nice package management system, but this is a different issue) is a big part of what makes them feel like they "own" their system. The sooner a user feels "at home" after an installation, the better. Ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org