Sorry, I hit send before I had even typed any reply :-). Comments inline.. > Hi Darren, > > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> First off - it looks nice! I assume this will actually run full >> screen though rather than "in a window" ?
Well.. no, we hadn't planned that. The current GUI doesn't take the full screen, and we actually allow for a terminal window being opened during the install. But, I suppose we could discuss this. Most other installers do take the full screen. > > >> The start of the demo wasn't good for me though. Agreed. >> The first thing I think that should be presented is an overview of the >> flow. Being asked language questions three times is a little >> confusing, it might be better to ask them all together. Actually, you are asked the language questions 2 times, the other question is a keyboard question. I don't see 3 language questions. Here's the issue... the first 'language' question is what language do you want to run the installer in? This window isn't part of the installer itself, it is before the actual installer comes up. We have to know which language to display for the user. This is separate from installing language support. But, in looking at the demo again I see there is no text describing what the first language question is really asking. We need to fix that. The current Solaris installer doesn't ask this question if it can get the data via the network. But, with Dwarf we are not using the network, and are booting from the DVD, so we can't get this data. This means we have to ask the user what language they want the installer to use. The keyboard question will not be asked for every install. If we can find the current keyboard layout type from the keyboard we won't ask. Otherwise we will. >> I assume the multiple windows opening and closing at the start as we >> go through language, keyboard is just a feature of the demo and it >> won't actually work like that. I would think it wouldn't have to work like that in real life and I agree it is kind of jarring to have that happen. But, it may be an artifact of the fact that these windows are not part of the installer itself. Niall, do you know if we can make this behave differently? sarah
