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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Boyd Gerber