That's good to know. Having installed Solaris 10 last night I have installers on the brain and while I like the ubuntu installer it's still not ideal in my mind.
In my mind the perfect installer goes like this. It first asks you if you are going to be doing a normal or custom install (noting that custom is for people who know their way around an installer). The custom installer, I think, works very much like the one we have now, using the default settings but giving you the option of editing along hte way (much like we have now). The normal installer is for most users. You get a few basic questions (what are you going ot use the computer for, etc) and then it scans your current machine. It tells you what you setup is (you have an ubuntu distribution and a windows install here) and lets you pick and choose whether to keep or overwrite those (I would hope that it would suggest to keep them if there is enough memory, but whatever). Then it just goes. Assuming a dhcp internet connection it should be able to tell you where you are, what time it is, and all that other crap as well we detect the jist of your hardware. Sure, you'll miss out of custom specialization, but that's what a custom install is for. Also, while we're talking about the install process (not the desktop team's thing, but still) can we ask someone to pretty please set up a script to change the default paper size based on location? I have to change it from a4 to letter on every install I do. it blows. On 8/28/06, Andreas Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > Erik Jan Philippo wrote: > > We should make a survey with a lot of questions like: what's the main > > purpose of your computer?, which other thinks do you like to do?, what > > is the biggest problem with your computer? etc.... > > > The marketing team are working on survey much like the one you describe > here. I'm sure they'd appreciate any help you can offer. You can read > more about the project here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/SurveyQuestionIdeas > > Also, they're gathering more detailed User Case Studies - a project > which you can read more about here: http://www.ubuntu.com/mystory and > here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/UserCaseStudies > > Both of these projects are part of the new research hub for the > Marketing Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Research > > Hope you'll find this useful. > > Best regards, > > Andreas > > PS: Don't worry about your English! It's well readable :-) > > -- > https://launchpad.net/people/lloydinho > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > -- later, ~joe auerbach (cam # US2004122445) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
