On 2014-07-12 21:30 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
Via HTTP I just did my first Factory installation in several months. White on brown is ugly. Is there or will there be an option for an installation GUI theme more like the old, black text on light background, with visible borders, scrollers, and tabs where applicable?
Red on brown (in changes to partitioning) is barely legible. Green on brown on summary screen is virtually invisible. I can tell something is there, but not what it says, and there is no popup to explain whatever is hovered.
In expert partitioner, there are "checkboxes" lacking boxes. I don't like that either. Once they are all unchecked, there is nothing to indicate boxes exist, much less where they are. This particular section has always puzzled me: "visible information on storage devices" for what (installation summary/storage settings) purpose?
When I open Fstab options after having selected volume label as the default mount by, why for a freshly formatted target / partition with volume label is UUID preselected instead of Volume Label?
Seeing parts of the content of the fullscreen "Edit Partition /dev/sda16" spilling out from under that (apparently) borderless brown void that is the Fstab options "window" is seriously unimpressive.
In detailed software selection those itty bitty things in left pane apparently representing checked boxes need to be much bigger to tell that's what they're supposed to be.
Choice between no bootloader and Grub2 is very Fedora-ish, would cause all my installations to be much more complicated, since I have no need and thus no use for the overcomplicated monster (to be obsoleted in not too distant future by UEFI) that is Grub2. Since Grub remains available to select among packages, will it be possible to set it up from running the grub shell on tty2 before rebooting from the installer (I tried simply 'grub', which produces command not found from bash)? Towards the end it claimed to be installing boot manager even though Grub2 was tabooed, produced no error message. Neither did it leave a /boot/grub/menu.lst to be used as configfile from elsewhere, though it did produce a device.map. /etc/sysconfig/bootloader is too stripped to be useful. Trying to chainload it produced the invalid executable format message I'm used to seeing on installations containing no bootloader on /. I copied and edited menu.lst from 13.1 for now, and gfxboot and perl-Bootloader apparently work as always even though I had to manually configure Grub.
y2logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/y2l-gx28b-os132-201407.tgz
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