-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Pitt wrote on 18/04/12 08:14: > ... > > * We install some drivers (like Broadcom wifi) straight from > Ubiquity now, which certainly makes sense for devices where there > is no free alternative.
"Ubuntu uses third-party software to display Flash, MP3 and other media, and to work with some wireless hardware." I wrote that sentence in Ubiquity, but now we need to be more specific. A team is working right now on letting you reinstall Ubuntu with exactly the same software you had installed before. To do that, you will need to sign in and download the inventory of software you had installed before. To sign in and download anything, you will need to have an Internet connection. Unless you have Ethernet, mobile broadband, etc, this means you need a working wi-fi driver. You usually won't know that you don't have a working wi-fi driver, unless Ubiquity tells you. So it needs to tell you specifically, "You need to install this wireless driver to complete this task". > For the others (e. g. NVidia) we pop up a notification and offer to > install them. I'd like to walk through the current UI and discuss > how this could be made more steamlined and less confusing (e. g. > for NVidia it can potentially offer 6 different drivers for you!) > > * We might consider merging the jockey UI functionality, which is > mostly a shallow GUI around "install that package" now) into > software-center, control-center, or something similar to the codec > installer. I'd again appreciate if someone from the design team > could participate in that (hello Matthew!). > > ... Here's a design I prepared earlier: Jockey would become an "Additional Drivers" tab in a "Software & Updates" panel of System Settings. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareAndUpdatesSettings#drivers> (I need to update that design to incorporate feedback from Alex Chiang. <https://bugs.launchpad.net/jockey/+bug/660669/comments/2>) Questions to consider when evaluating that or any other design: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2012-January/013472.html> - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+RlYIACgkQ6PUxNfU6eco/jgCdFce9s61qsXL3L+lfpkTaVkRf p10Amwa+zVhilNnURbW5QuQs/MEa4XbF =KKM6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
