Hi, Ancor & all If you are OK with recieving some user feedback through devel list, I'd like to share my opinion on that. 2016-01-21 11:19 GMT+03:00 Ancor Gonzalez Sosa <ancor@suse.de>:
After getting some bug reports about usability of the "create user" screen during installation we have decided to do something about it... but it's not so easy.
The current status ==================
Here you can see the current screen. http://paste.opensuse.org/29576621 There is quite some functionality hidden there:
A) You can select the password encryption method (clicking on "Change...")
B) You can select one of only one of these options:
B.1) Create a user (Obvious)
B.2) Skip user creation (Leaving the form blank and clicking "Next", a confirmation popup will be displayed "This only makes sense in environments with an authentication service. Are you sure?")
B.3) Import users from a previous installation. (Clicking on "Change..." and then checking the corresponding checkbox -only visible if users are detected- under the section "authentication method")
B.3 is so well hidden that I wouldn't be surprised if nobody uses it or if the feature is full of bugs. Wow, I can only remember one time I've actually seen this dialog about importing existing users
Hopefully, everything is self-explanatory with this approach. The problem is that the last screenshot looks too crowded (maybe too much for same verbose languages). But I not sure if I like the alternatives we discussed in irc. You can get rid of crowdness by not being so verbose, also some option reordering can help. Option 1: Skip user creation (use authentication server) //this can fit in one line even in Russian Option 2: Create new user //selected by default, all the corresponding fields go unchanged If there was an existing installation detected, below goes the same text field as in current screen, but it says smth like "Existing installation was detected at <partition>. You can import users from there" and the button wiil be "Select users".
I think this way all three options will be correctly presented without much visual clutter. -- Regards, Minton. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org