Marco Möller writes: > On 10.09.20 18:43, David Wright wrote:
>> So what would your version of an installer do when presented with: >> >> │ [*] Debian desktop environment │ >> │ [ ] ... GNOME │ >> │ [ ] ... Xfce │ >> │ [ ] ... KDE │ >> │ [ ] ... Cinnamon │ >> │ [ ] ... MATE │ >> │ [ ] ... LXDE │ > I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that > first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is > redundant with the second line "... GNOME". If someone deselects the > second line because no wanting GNOME, but does not image what the > first line might contain, then he will be surprised that GNOME became > anyway fully installed after the first line was still selected, a > behaviour which makes no sense after the second line was explicitly > not selected. It is especially annoying if you did this selection > "mistake" on slow or expensive bandwidth. When I first time did this > mistake, I thought, hey, maybe for a desktop they will install already > something like network manager and other network managing tools or a > tiny collection of enhanced editors like vim instead of vi only, maybe > some other cute utilities. But I ended up with looong time downloading > and installing a full blown GNOME which I actually wanted to avoid and > therefore did unselect the second line initially. > Best regards, Marco. I've also been bitten by this. I think it is a UI issue, the options are ambiguous. Would it be possible to simply change the dialog box as follows? -- Debian desktop environments: [ ] ... GNOME (default) [ ] ... Xfce [ ] ... KDE [ ] ... Cinnamon [ ] ... MATE [ ] ... LXDE -- Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY PGP 015AE9B25DCB0511D200A75DE5674DEA514C891D