Hi,
Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> In other words
> >>
> >> You can select the priority of question you want to see:
> >> - 'critical': only questions that are essential for a successful
> >> installation
> >> - 'high': also questions for which the default often needs to be changed
> >> - 'medium': also questions for which the default sometimes needs to be
> >> changed
> >> - 'low': all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be
> >> changed
> >>
> >> Or perhaps putting some words back in:
> >>
> >> Please select the questions you want to be shown by priority level:
> >> * "critical": only show questions that are essential for a successful
> >> installation;
> >> * "high": also show questions for which the default often needs to be
> >> changed;
> >> * "medium": also show questions for which the default sometimes needs
> >> to be changed;
> >> * "low": show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to
> >> be changed.
> >
> > What worries me here is, that the description for high, medium and low only
> > differs
> > in just ONE word/term ("often", "sometimes", "only rarely").
> >
> > I fear that users might get overstrained with finding the difference within
> > the
> > lines... ?
>
> I don't know about you, but for me it's easier to find important
> differences when everything else stays constant than when they're
> hidden among various unimportant differences.
yes, maybe you are right.
Furthermore, I have to advance this whole review a bit, since I noticed that
I did not included all relevant terms. I'm sorry for this!
The complete dialog looks like this:
----snip----------------------------------------------------------------------
Change debconf priority
Packages that use debconf for configuration prioritize the questions they
might ask you. Only questions with a certain priority or higher are
actually shown to you; all less important questions are skipped.
You can select the lowest priority of question you want to see:
- 'critical' is for items that will probably break the system
without user intervention.
- 'high' is for items that don't have reasonable defaults.
- 'medium' is for normal items that have reasonable defaults.
- 'low' is for trivial items that have defaults that will work in
the vast majority of cases.
For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your priority
were already 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question.
Ignore questions with a priority less than:
critical
high
medium
low
----snap-------------------------------------------------------------------
Applying the already suggested changings, and adding some more changings
to the other strings, that would lead to something like:
----snip-------------------------------------------------------------------
Change debconf priority
Packages that use debconf for configuration prioritize the questions they
might ask you. Only questions with a certain priority are
actually shown to you; all less important questions are skipped.
Please select the questions you want to be shown by priority level:
- 'critical': only show questions that are essential for a successful
installation;
- 'high': additionally to 'critical', show questions for which the default
often
needs to be changed;
- 'medium': also show questions for which the default sometimes needs to be
changed;
- 'low': show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be
changed.
For example, this question is of 'medium' priority, so if you had chosen to see
only questions of 'high' or 'critical' priority, it wouldn't be shown.
Only show questions with priority level:
critical
high
medium
low
----snap---------------------------------------------------------------------
The most relevant change here is the last line before the choices.
I would rephrase that from "Ignore questions ..." into the "Show questions ..."
system we have in the other part, for consistency and easy understanding.
And I thought about expanding the description part of the levels a bit, to
hightlight how the concept works. Means to use this for 'high':
(that's important to get rid of the "<priority> and higher" or "less than
<priority>" parts)
- "high": additionally to 'critical', show questions for which the default
often
needs to be changed;
Comments?
(I have attached a raw patch, to show the changings from above)
Holger
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Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org>
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Change debconf priority
Packages that use debconf for configuration prioritize the questions they
-might ask you. Only questions with a certain priority or higher are
+might ask you. Only questions with a certain priority are
actually shown to you; all less important questions are skipped.
-You can select the lowest priority of question you want to see:
- - 'critical' is for items that will probably break the system
- without user intervention.
- - 'high' is for items that don't have reasonable defaults.
- - 'medium' is for normal items that have reasonable defaults.
- - 'low' is for trivial items that have defaults that will work in
- the vast majority of cases.
+Please select the questions you want to be shown by priority level:
+ - 'critical': only show questions that are essential for a successful installation;
+ - 'high': additionally to 'critical', show questions for which the default often
+ needs to be changed;
+ - 'medium': also show questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed;
+ - 'low': show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed.
-For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your priority
-were already 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question.
+For example, this question is of 'medium' priority, so if you had chosen to see
+only questions of 'high' or 'critical' priority, it wouldn't be shown.
-Ignore questions with a priority less than:
+Only show questions with priority level:
critical
high
medium
low
