Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> >> We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, >> I guess, no changes have been made to it. >> >> I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! >> My only quibble is with the use of the term Wizard, as in "Use the >> Wizard to partition". I don't think wizard is a proper noun, so should >> not be capitalised, and I don't see how this is better than the old >> "Automatically partition". It assumes that the user is familiar with >> windows wizard-type things (and doesn't hate them ;-), and seems overly >> cute to me. > > Just my $0.05 worth... > > On a system that I've already got an operating system installed on, that I > really, really would prefer not to hose, I'm going to fear and distrust > anything that uses the words "Automatic" and "Partition" together, and > choose some other option that implies I have more control over whether or > not I accidentally hose the partition that has my other OS on it... Um, that would be a correct decision. ;-) I would trust a "Wizard" even less, of course.
> Particularly if I'm not confident before selecting the item that it isn't > going to go off on it's merry way and do something unrevertable before I > get a chance to go "hang on!". > > I suspect users new to Linux/Debian but familiar with PCs in general are > going to take this line of reasoning. > > regards > > Andrew -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]