On Thursday 13 February 2003 05:33, Denis HAVLIK wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > > + Furthermore, I think it might be modified to be able to easily get a > + mirror list from MandrakeClub, specifically so that Club Members could > + easily setup a urpmi source for MandrakeClub, for things like getting > + the NVidia drivers. > > FYI, "MandrakeFirsttime" will let folks declare that they are > Club members and even subscribe directly (trial accounts with > boxes) and automatically configure Club downloads in 9.1. > > cu > Denis
Then there have to be some changes made to MandrakeFirsttime. The way MandrakeFirsttime is right now, it triggers my panic nerves: I see a explanation which is too long to fit on one screenful: "we will not use this data to ... we do use this data for ..." [too long for me to read] followed by a request for personal information. I automatically click cancel. [More about the text below] There are alternative designs: Don't show the screen with the long explanations, jump straight to the user setup screen and have a checkbox: "Share this data with MandrakeSoft" and a button next to it which brings up the explanations of what is involved if one chooses to do the sharing. Has anyone here ever read the text? Here's a copy of the first 4 lines as they are in 9.0, I believe it is the same in cooker: " What personal data do we collect ? Various information is collected in different areas of the website; what follows is an overview of the data we keep: Firstly, we record your email address, name and postal address." 1) >>website<<??? This seems completely inappropriate for mandrakefirsttime. 2) "we record your ..." and no opt-out? This makes me hit cancel right away. I suspect the text was simply copied without modifications from mandrakeexpert or some other website! If anybody replies in support of this usability issue, I'll open a 2 bugreports on Mandrakefirsttime in bugzilla, one for the text and one for the lack of a "share/do not share this info with mandrake" checkbox. Narfi.
