Hi All, Installed beta 3 this morning, and then updated it with the freshest rpms from my local mirror.
I have a few comments/suggestions that you may or may not choose to ignore :) 1. Are the samba-swat, samba-winbind and samba-doc packages going to appear in the list of packages during installation? At the momemnt I had to add them manually after the install. 2. Is it possible to improve the description for the package kdebindings? At the moment all it say is "kdebindings". Perhaps though this is a problem for the KDE developers? 3. The lilo config part of the install has changed. Previously you got a window with a list of the installed bootable images that you could select to modify. Now you get a drop down box, which I personally find plain annoying. Being able to select images out of the window was much faster than having to continually drop down a box. 4. Same as 3, except for the X-setup phase. Previous you got a window with the options to change monitor, card, resolution etc etc. Now its a drop down box. I hope there might be some discussion generated about 3 & 4 with a view to possibly changing them back, depending on majority opinion. 5. Would like to try to raise another discussion about how the X-install phase works. A the moment in order to change your videocard, monitor and other settings, you have to remember to choose "test settings" and then to click on "NO" when it asks you if this configuration is correct, even though to all appearances there is nothing wrong with it. I think it would be much more sensible to place the menu for card/monitor/etc selection before do you the initial test configuration. (And to reiterate, make it a window with a list again, not a dropdown box) 6. Another problem with X-setup. When choosing my video card (an ASUS v7700 - not listed) I accidentally chose NVidia geforce 2 integrated instead of the correct (for me) geforce2 dds generic. When I went to test the card, I got an error "Cant call method 'set active' on an undefined value". I was unable to go back and reselect the correct card, and had to abort the installation and start again. I feel there needs to be some way to go back to the beginning of the X setup phase and have the installer forget any settings youve chosen previously. The following points are regarding an installed system 1. Any time you make changes to lilo.conf and run lilo -v, it shows an error message "menu scheme not supported by bootloader". 2. A bit of eye-candy... I think it would be more aesthetically pleasing if a logo was included by default on the kde logon screen. I mean its not hard to change (kde control panel, login manager), but it might be a nice touch to include one by default, maybe even a nice picture combining both the mdk and kde logos or something. 3. While trying to change the logo, you can select from logos in a directory called /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics In that directory (emphasis on a dir called pics!) there is a file called kde-mdk-logo.png, which to all outward appearances looks like a nice pretty png file you could choose to use as a logo. But nope. Its an installer file!! Is there anyway this file could be moved to another, more appropriate directory? Anyway, if anyone is still reading this far, hope this might have been some help, please respond if anything is not clear or I dont make much sense!!!!! Hamster
