2007/3/15, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/14/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As there are some bugs regarding the installer I had the idea of doing > > some rewrite of it as well. Not from scratch, but more to make it more > > effective, giving the installation more of a "flow". As it is now I > > don't think there's a good order at the same time as I think that some > > settings should be grouped or placed on another screen. While I have > > thought of this for some time, I also have looked at how other distros > > do, so some things might sound familiar to those that use/have > > installed those distros. > > > > The current order is the following: > > > > 1. Welcome > > 2. Install target > > 3. Packages > > 4. Bootloader > > 5. General settings (Hostname, Keyboard layout, boot theme, bios clock > > setting) > > 6. Time zone > > 7+ one config screen for each NIC > > 8. General network settings > > 9. Super user > > 10. Extra users > > 11. Ready? > > > > 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) > > My first reaction is that with "packages" before "partitions" one > doesn't have a proper sense of the free space they have when selecting > packages. Other than that I don't have any strong opinions on the > order of things in the installer, as everything happens after the last > "ok" in the final screen, anyway. (Ah, and I'm not a fan of the idea > of presenting "no extra users" as an option.) > On the other side, having packages before partitions gives the user the information on how much space is needed for the requested installation and one can make partitions accordingly. As free space is cheap today I don't think that the information of free space is that important. I'd rather know how much space /Programs will take so I can use that information when dividing space between my partitions.
Regarding the order, it's more about the "feel" one get when going through the installer. If all that mattered was the result we could as well use 'motif' as Qt theme (not that 'motif' is a bad theme, but it looks a bit oldish). About the 'no extra users' option, well I don't like it either. I just included it to see if you were awake at the same time as I wanted to draw attention to my bug report ( http://bugs.gobolinux.org/view.php?id=57 ) and start a discussion. -- /Jonas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
