Azerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Welcome welcome,
>
> as some of you all may know I am very interested in the installation of 
> openSUSE. Big changes won't happen for 10.2 but I saw some things that 
> prabably are easy to change. I also found a bug that I will report after I 
> clicked "send". No more bla bla, let's go!
>
> 1.] If you check the chechbox for addons and you add the addon-cd, the actual 
> addon's are not shown in a patterngroup. That is not weird cause there is no 
> natural pattern between the packages from the Addon-cd but people do not 
> download the CD for fun. They download it because of Acrobat, Flash and some 
> more.
>
> The problem is that with the behavior from the installer at this moment Flash 
> for example is not checked and you can only find it by search or bij 
> Installation-source. To bad....people will expect it to be installed.

You're right - could you file a bug against the component "patterns"?
I'll take care of it for the next alpha.

> 2.] Please show after the restart a window/message in the mainwindow that you 
> have to wait. At this moment you see only the mouse-loading-icon and that 
> stopped. I am no noob so I checked top right away, but people will think that 
> the install hangs cause we are used to have the mouse not freezed when a 
> progam does. So only top was my indication that everything was fine.

That's worth a bug report as well.

> 3.] This is pure image-building. The screen from the installation is 
> too 'busy'. I have talked about it at this ML and I know there won't be big 
> changes as I said earlier, but small things can change a lot. This is only 
> about the "Package Installation:-screen cause that was the moment I checkd 
> the interface, but I guess some point can be applied to all the screens 
> without trouble.
>
> - remove the line under Package Installation. We can live without it cause 
> the 
> title is far above the rest so no splitter is needed.
>
> - connect the tabs to the inner-screen. At this moment they hover above it so 
> there is a line between the tabs and the inner-screen. Everything seems much 
> slicker when that splitline is gone. 
>
> - remove the border around the slide. It is just another border and it does 
> not make sens at all. Borders should only be used to 'order' things if 
> without borders it would be a mess. Trust me, I can see the diference between 
> the progress-bar and the slidetext without being confused :P
>
> - Make the inner-screen a bit more colored or a little bit lighter. At thos 
> moment it is spartanian in the same color as the rest of the screen. It looks 
> awful.
>
> - Some more comments about the slides but that will come some other day. I 
> think that the presentation is going to show at more CD's then only at CD1 so 
> there will be a discussion about that anyway.

I'll talk with the developers what's possible and look at it myself as
well.

> 4.] Just a little point but the theme have to be changed anyway I think 
> (cause 
> of those tabs). If there is a little message-window it does have some lines 
> in the border. Probably to show that the window can be rezised but it looks 
> weird if there is a little window where all those stripes are 2cm from their 
> neigbours.
>
>
> So, that was it. I know I am a crybaby :P but I think those little things 
> will 
> make the YaST-installer much slicker and it seems to be really small things 
> to change. I will report point 2 to Bugzilla and another bug (mouting crypted 
> disk gives an error when checked as "not mount at boot", if you first mount 
> and the check it it is fine).

thanks,
Andreas
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