On 14/07/2009, at 6:17 AM, Jean McCormack wrote: > > There are several issues with respect to the addition of software > selection > in the installer that need to be addressed. > > 1) The user interface > > A user should have the option to install different software > collections (Desktop, AMP, HPC, ... etc.) > during installation that accompany the default installation. Each > collection should not include the 'kitchen sink' but be > representative of a useful and popular selection of software that > users typically use for that task. > > Frank has a screen shot of what he has come up with here: > http://xdesign.sfbay.sun.com/projects/solaris/subprojects/install/design/screensSlim08-11.html > If the number of collection choices is larger than about 6, we may > have to add a "Software" screen following the Welcome screen.
The advantage of doing it after the Welcome screen in my mind is that we would have an opportunity of doing a ping in parallel to see if we can find an active connection / active publisher to connect to while the user is filling out the various other screens. One thing that might be useful (and perhaps this is achieved by back/next), is that if someone wanted to fix their network connection, we would provide the user an opportunity of doing so prior to install. Glynn
