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This is getting a bit better than the Dark Side 8.0 days,
BUT....
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure that everything that's visible in the
list-view package selection screen is available in the tree view...even if
you have to add another 'Other' or 'Uncommon'subtree of some sort. I
was amazed at how many tools, utilities, games, and so on are in the list
view but not the tree - where it's much easier to select and unselect
categories quickly. This should be a basic check that QA does for
*every* shipped beta-or-better build.
Jeff Dickey
Seven Sigma Software and Services
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-------Original Message-------
Date: Friday, March 08,
2002 15:24:38
Subject: [Cooker]
Beta-4 observations.
Some minor points about Beta-4...
There's no easy
way to install everything. Going down
the list of package groupings to
install I find when
adding some, other packages get removed from the
selection. I have to go back and re-select them, then
it works.
In particular 'console' causes a number of
other options to become
de-selected. 2.6 GB or so
really isn't that much space space these
days. There
should be an 'install everything' option.
At the
license agreement, hitting <enter> reboots
the machine, which is
a little annoying. Presumably
the default key rejects the agreement but
this is not
obvious because you can't see which of the buttons
is
the default. it would be nice for first-time users
if the dlg
just stayed there until the user either
hit the 'OK' button or the
reset switch, or clicked
on the 'no' button.
On network
configuration, after auto-detection you
are told which card has been
detected and asked if you
have 'another one'. Unfortunately this is
ambiguous
because you could mean
"Do you have a different
one"
-or-
"Do you have an additional (or 2nd) one".
It's only
clear which of these you mean in the
following
dialog. I would
suggest changing the text to "Do you
have a different one?". (ahh the
joys of the English
language :-)).
The boot-up sequence
indicates that swap is being
'started', but I don't have any swap!
Perhaps the
message should change if there's been no swap
partition created.
In the lilo installation options there is an
edit
box that allows you to enter the (real) amount of
RAM on your
system. I was fearful of using this
facility because I had no idea what
the units were.
Perhaps this could be made clear in the dialog
text.
The wrong order of magnitude -either way- would
have pretty
dire consequences on the next reboot.
thanks for
listening
-S.
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