Hisham Muhammad wrote: > 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.
That was my thought too, and also that some users may find that "oh, I need to partition my disk but I have no free space and I don't want to mess with my other partitions so I better go and buy an extra disk" or something like that... -- /Jonatan -=( http://kymatica.com )=- _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
