> > > As far as unabashed marketing during our > > install--did someone say "popup > > > ads"?--what a way to treat a masterpiece
> Again, these can be useful. I agree with your sentiment: nothing > ticks me off more than an anti-piracy ad I can't skip on a DVD I > just bought, for example, or not being able to skip the trailers for > other movies I don't want to buy. But at the same time, the use of > pop-ups can be made to improve the whole experience. This > doesn't HAVE to be a negative, if it's done right. I think the word "ad" got wrong interpretations! While the installation is going on, we can show small clips telling about what all the things that you can do on Solaris. What tools and applications you will get to use, etc. I think this will greatly enhance the "Install Experience". > > > Keeping my target audience in focus, I would hide, to the > > > greatest extent possible, as many technical details as possible > > > and still be fit for purpose. I would assume as little as possible > > > my target user's technical knowledge--and patience for technical > > > tedium. The focus would be computing to support the individual > > > office user with an individual office computer. So, that brings us to the important quesion of "Who is the target audience". Today we are not only targeting the technical savvy, geeks, but also targetting the "very large" developer community and also "Future" developers (those who are still in universities today). And "Installer" is the first impression of Solaris and that has to be good. If a person gets "Bad" experience during installation, then the chances of him not continuing with Solaris will be "More"!! So, we want to make the "Solaris Installation" simple, user friendly and also attractive. It shouldn't contain anything, for which the user doesn't have answer or has to search on google! "Installer" should try to get all the answers by itself, but should give a chance for the user to edit it (in case he wants to). Also, the questions asked should be straight forward. He should not read it second time to get the meaning. It should "Only" ask the minimum set of questions needed to install the OS. During first boot, he must be given a choice to setup few more things and should get some assistance if he wants to do it. -Narendra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20060907/727d573e/attachment.html>
