Azerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a mail that I send to Andreas some days ago: It is a reply so the > start is not like a normal startpost.
Thanks for resending it here. Sorry, personal email sometimes takes time to answer :-( > ==================================== > > People are confused by seeing > Httpserver, DNS-server and so on in YaST. YaST is great but at this moment it > becomes 'unorganised' (posted a bugzilla on that some month ago) in the way > that it offers to much that is not needed (and not properly bundeld). Same > thing is the case at this moment in SL 10.1 with ZEN (not in one screen but 3 > apps) > > Another thing about YaST is the following: > > At this moment YaST is used to install SL/oS. Looking at other distro's and > OS's it is great and it works. But it is not _that_ good looking and not > _that_ simple and fast to use. Maybe an idea for 10.3 to pimp the install and > change some things.... > > Idea 1: Do not use 'windows' like we do use it now. It should be a > fullscreen 'background'. That way you can change the background of the > installer every release and that would be nice. Look at the links and scoll > that page. That looks nice to mr. Joe Average! > > http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Screenshot_Submissions#Freespire_Welcome_Screen Something I liked - we even discussed this over a year ago and then other things become more important :-(. Could you add this to the wishlist, please? > Idea 2: Let the user select what screens he/she wants to use default: > default/expert. On every screen in default there will be an option to see > expert-options but you don't have to make the choice every time. The problem is that most people want one expert option but not all. So, allowing the choice is needed - but on the other hand I think that with our proposals we do something similar as well. > Idea 3: This one is stolen from Vista. Drop those radiobuttons (round things) > and replace it with an nice arrow that directly reponse. > Idea 4: Do not show more information the needed in default. I don't care what > step I have had and which one will come next. So the progress-tree can be > dropped in default (maybe a little button to show and give the opportunity to > go back some steps to change a setting). When SL is installing you see stats This is controversial - usability tests show that the progress bar is important. > about each disk, packages, size and so on. The only thing the customer wants > to now is : > - how far are we in total? > - how long will it take from now on? > - when do I need to insert another cd? > > [======== ] < no numbers! > Estimated: 12 minutes Next CD: 2 minutes > > Under that there is a lot of space for a slideshow I guess. We do have the slideshow. > Idea 5: Take care of that you show a lot of nice things in the slideshow. 3 > buttons: prev, next, diashow. It uses some space on the disk but new users > will welcome it.... What exactly do you suggest here? > Do you have some comments on it. Some point have reached the ML and bugzilla > before but I guess this time I want to make a mockup if there is a chance > that it will be redesigned. No chance for 10.2 to do fundamental changes but a mockup is something I would like to see. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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