Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi Sarah. > > On 07/31/09 10:33, Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi Jack, >> >> I am a little late to this party, but I do have a question/comment >> which I believe have not been addressed in the current thread on this. >> >> -Use Case 2: >>> At boot time, user is presented with the "main menu": >>> 1. Run installer >>> 2. Install missing drivers >>> 3. Shell >>> 4. Reboot >>> >> So, in call cases is the user going to be presented with the 'install >> missing drivers' option? Or only if we have found drivers are missing >> at boot time? I am asking because having this option always there, >> implies to me anyway as a user, that I have missing drivers I need to >> install. Is there any way around having this option when there are >> not missing drivers? > When I talked about this with Frank, we decided to have this menu look > similar to the S10 install menu. > > I just booted S10 and see that it says "Apply driver updates", not > "Install missing drivers". I'll update my document with this change. > I think making this change will address your concerns about implying > (and not so subtly :) ) that drivers are missing when they may not be. > > To answer your question, though, we could implement something to show > the "Apply Driver Updates" menu selection conditionally. We could > potentially implement the text-mode DDU with a silent mode like we are > planning for the GUI-based DDU. This would scan devices like the DDU > does today, but in the background. The text installer could use this > information to determine whether or not to display the "Apply Driver > Updates" menu item. Not sure if this will take away needed > functionality though; if someone hot-plugged a PCI controller card > while the system was up, a new device could potentially show up after > the scan determined not to show "Apply Driver Updates". I suppose the > user could just reboot... > > I think from a user-convenience standpoint, always showing the menu > item, but having it say "Apply Driver Updates" is the best choice. > What do you think? > > When a user see the option "Apply Driver Updates", a user might think that they can update existing drivers, which I think we are not supporting, right? We are just supporting the installation of missing drivers. IMO, if we can show the "Install missing drivers" option conditionally, that is more clear.
--Karen
