On Wednesday 14 March 2007 23:17, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> My suggestion for order and features is the following:
>
> 1. Welcome/Installation language
> 2. Time zone/bios clock setting
> 3. Keyboard layout (1)
> 4. Super user
> 5. Extra user (2)
> 6. General network settings (3)
> 7+ Config screens for all NICs not configured as dhcp (4)
> 8. Packages (5)
> 9. Specific packages (6)
> 9. Target drive (7)
> 10. Partitions (8)
> 11. Conclussion (9)
>
> 1) The list of keyboard layouts are too long. I'd reather have it with
> two columns, one there one can select country/language and one that
> dynamically updates with layouts corresponding to the selection in the
> first selection.
I like this idea. Possibly better would be a tree widget with Region
(Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, etc.), Country, and then
keyboard/language.
> 2) Extra user screen can be made optional by the user ticking a
> checkbox in the previous (super user) screen. In the case of the user
> ticking this box or that (s)he hasn't filled any user in this screen a
> warning should be displayed when "next" is clicked and the user should
> have to confirm that (s)he is aware of the risk running as super user
> only and that the choise is intentional.
I don't like this. If someone insists on shooting themselves in the foot,
they should already know how to do so, without any help from the installer.
On the topic of the user screens, I noticed that if the two passwords
don't match, the installer flashes a warning, but permits the installation to
continue. The correct behavior should be to not enable the "Next" button
until both passwords match.
> It's the same amount of pages as before (if all pages are used) but
> imo a better flow and more consistant behaviour. I want some of this
> to be ready for 014 (is it wanted?), like the order and what settings
> belong where. The functionallity is too much for 014 and I think that
> is better off for 015. Depending on the status of 014 maybe all is
> targeted for 015.
Requested functionality for 015 (but maybe add the hooks in the 014
installer): encrypt hard drive partitions. After doing some tests, I'm
withdrawing my previous support for EncFS; it's fine for encrypted
directories, but not for encrypting entire partitions. LUKS seems to be a
much better choice, and also has the added bonus that with FreeOTFE
(http://www.freeotfe.org) encrypted Linux partitions can be mounted in
Windows (should someone for some strange reason still have Windows).
:Peter
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