Rajko M. schreef:
On Thursday 10 April 2008 09:28:56 pm Bryen wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:19 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
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What if instead we made that screen in the installer be something like:
What do you want your desktop to look like?
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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.
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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.
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I like this idea very much too, i was thinking the same..
So, with that in mind, I propose that under each of the graphics (or if we don't use graphics and stick with the current list format), we allow users to check multiple DE's. We do have this option currently. However, adding multiple DE's later in software installation is not straightforward.
We should have checkboxes here. And we should leave the checkboxes blank so as to not imply a default DE. In addition, if left blank, there should be some warning (popup window?) that says you must choose something, even if it is the Text-only installation.
I would not mention text mode as that can be choice for some that will be scared off, or laugh on us, what kind of Linux we provide :-)
No if they don't know, they won't pick it, but merely think: wow, a lot of choice.!
Maybe to default to all of them, if none is checked, with warning how much space is required.
This i would certainly do, because as someone who uses the systems, i am always curious to know how much room to calculate, warning is not the right word here, but i also cann't find the right one atm...
This takes away from forcing a newbie to decide, and gives them the opportunity to explore further later on. These days, many people have enough hard drive space to add both.
Telling how much space each installation requires would be good anyway. It can help people to see that difference is not that huge.
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