> A very nice demo indeed and lot of improvement over > the current one. Encouraging to hear :)
> I tried it and felt happy to see the visual > improvements and now have > a few clarifications to ask: > 1. Right now nothing happens on pressing the "Help" > button. > So, after the cayman comes out, will clicking > this button pops out > help window or the help message will occupy the > current screen? Yes, we just haven't provided any help yet, it will eventually pop up help content relevant to the current screen. > . In the summary screen, if I need to make any > changes, I will have > to go back and make changes. This is planned for a future release, post dwarf. > It will be good, if I have a choice to correct it > here itself. > And also, this screen is not showing the > "Hostname" typed in the > revious screen. Hmm, we could add that in easily, I'll raise it with the visual and UI designers. > 3. Progress Bar is only showing a filling bar. > It will be helpful, if it also shows the > percentage over and the > time remaining to complete. Based on my (limited) understanding, the time remaining calculation isn't terribly accurate anyway, but we do plan to have a % display in the progress bar. > 4. Will there be any choice to select the filesystem > or is it only ZFS? It will actually be UFS, ZFS boot is very nearly, but not quite there yet. > And there is no information regarding the "File > System" that is > oing to be installed on the partition screen. It will be UFS, as it always has been in the past :) > 5. In the "Date and Time" screen, will the user be > allowed use his > mouse and click on the map to select his timezone? The map is planned for the next release. Writing a widget to handle such interaction will take some time, and we're a bit short on that for dwarf caiman. > 6. First screen doesn't have any heading/label. That's intentional since it is not localisable at this stage - the user hasn't selected their language yetrIt will mean nothing to non-english speakers. > 7. In the sysid screen, we are asking for a > "Hostname". > But, what if the user wants to go for DHCP and I > don't see any > hoice with DHCP/Static Address! I belive NWAM will take care of this. > So, are we assuming that this is a standalone > install? I believe NWAM will activate on initial reboot and take care of the networking configuration automatically. Thanks for the feedback! Niall. > Regards, > Narendra > > On 4/4/07, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> > wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > >>> Excellent, nice a clear. Assuming the Studio > tools are installed, will > > >>> the install memory footprint be reduced? > > >> > > >> Well... that's an interesting question. We hope > to reduce the memory > > >> footprint and are working towards that end. The > addition of the Studio > > >> tools doesn't make the footprint any bigger > really. By that time we > > >> can use what is installed on disk for anything > we need. > > > > > > > > > I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression > that the developer > > > edition install memory requirement was so high > due to the Studio > > > installer being Java. Maybe I should try a fresh > install and check it > > out! > > > > > > No, that's not why it is so high. The Studio > installer does use Java, > > but by the time we need it we can get it from the > disk. > > > > Java is an issue in the memory requirements for the > current installer. > > We are using C and the Gnome toolkit for the Dwarf > GUI. However, that > > doesn't automatically remove the need for Java. > There are other issues > > we are trying to work through on this. > > > > thanks, > > sarah > > _______________________________________________ > > caiman-discuss mailing list > > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > > > > -- > Warm Regards, > Narendra > > Visit my blogs at: > http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar > ___ ___ __ _ > __/ / __/ / | / / > \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / > _/ \___/ /_/ |__/ > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
