Hans Witvliet schreef:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 10:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mardi 11 mars 2008, à 22:22 +0100, Hans Witvliet a écrit :
In that case, i would opt for an trinary question at the very beginning: a) Best guess (feeling lucky, like google) b) Skip all those questions that will get the "default" answer Like discussed at Fosdem
Hrm, what are the differences between a and b?
c) Present the user all of those detailed questions, for the die-hards
IMHO, it's better to not have an expert mode in the same installer as lots of users will think they are expert while they're not and will get lost. So I'd provide two sets of CD/DVD: desktop install and standard install. But I can understand people disagreeing on this, so... :-)
Vincent
Hi Vincent,
Difference between A and B is, The first one does result in configuring a particular item (write mbr, use pwd instead of ldap, configure first network card with dhcp, run-level 5).
While the second one just skips it, and leaves the expicit configuring upto the user/afministrator untill the moment he needs it and knows how to give a sensible answer to the questions. No printers, no scanners, no BT or irda....
The "C" option is rather sensitive, hope i don't start war on it. It gives the user to ultimate choise what to install/configure or what not. Yes, one can allways remove things afterwards. But by then you wasted time and diskspace (that my be scarce). I don't want to remove things i didn't want in the first place.
This last line i had to repeat over and over again to the sales man last week when i had to buy another system, that came pre-loaded with Vista.... (yes i know that the removal of vista is the best thing you can do with it ;-)
How about a slide-bar named "ease of installation 1..10" If it rates "super easy for the beginning user" then just one question: Install yes/no. If affirmative, just install a default KDE-desktop, GMT, English. No questions asked. period. Just like a live-dvd.
If it rates a little bit more advanced, the user gets *some* more questions, like kde/gnome, language, time-zone
If it rates certified admin, he gets ALL the nice questions, like lvm, raid, wifi-protection, sshd-options, all those nice mail possibilities, ldap, kerberos ....
To sum it up: Newbies are not troubled by questions they can not answer, While more advanced users have the freedom they can handle.
And the user themselves decide what to do, no-one else.
Hans
So it was 'C' afterall! (inside joke) This "C", is a very nice and revolutionary solution.. If it would be possible? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.24.1-6-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha2 KDE: 4.0.2 (KDE 4.0.2) "release 8.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org