Sarah Jelinek wrote: > 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.
I think it should be full screen with a button in the side bar to bringup a terminal if needed (given that that is serious expert functionality) >> >>> 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. I'm asked: What language to run the installer in. What language/layout my keyboard is What languages to install. To and end user thats 3 language related 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. Yep. > 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. Thats fine, but to an end user thats still three language related questions being asked. > 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. Fair enough, and unfortunately this has to be one of the first questions otherwise answering the later ones is hard :-) >>> 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? Why aren't they part of the installer though ? -- Darren J Moffat
