On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 10:48 +0100, Stefan Hundhammer wrote: > On 2021-01-18 23:28, David Díaz wrote: > > Today I opened an issue[1] in yast2-installation for proposing to > > (almost) start the installation process in the summary screen. > > I am all for it. This means turning full circle after many years of > adding more and more steps to the installation workflow. > > We used to have something that was marketed as the "3 click > installer". > It was always some more clicks, but not that many; maybe 5 or 6. But > the > spirit was there. > > That was the reason for coming up with the proposal in the first > place: > Propose useful defaults that would fit for most users and give the > others a chance to tweak what they don't like. Make that easily > accessible and easily discoverable. > > Then came a lot of interest groups wanting to showcase THEIR > favourite > features, so they had to get their special workflow step (Btrfs? Disk > encryption? ...). Then came issues that nobody dared to decide (what > desktop? KDE? GNOME?). Then came the lawyers with their licenses. > Then > came sales with registration. > > And so the list goes on and on and on, perverting the idea and spirit > behind the proposal.
Thanks a lot, Stefan! It is (at least for me) quite interesting to know how the installer has evolved from an almost single screen to the (long) wizard it is now. However, I still think that despite those reasons it is possible to go for a simpler approach just improving some bits here and there. So, apart from what Ancor says [1] in the Github issue, we can use some known patterns too. E.g., using a "By installing the system I accept terms & conds" in the summary screen that must be checked to start the installation and which contains a link to open a new pop/dialog to read the license. Much less intrusive than the step we have now. And widely used. [1] https://github.com/yast/yast-installation/issues/903#issuecomment-762734046 > > Not so long ago I showed some of our community members (e.g. lcp) > screenshots of the old installation workflow back in the SuSE 7.x / > 8.x > days, and they were amazed; and they unanimously said that's what > they > wanted, and can we PLEASE have that back? ;-) > > I couldn't agree more with them. > > > Knd regards
