Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > > This looks Great! Two suggestions. In the screen showing "Review the > settings below before installing ...' > It will immensely help user experience to have a modify button next to > each bullet in the list so that the > user can jump directly to the relevant configuration screen without > having to press Back button multiple > times. This is part of the long-term design. Look for it in a future release. > > In the install progress bar display there should be a "Show Details" > button that will display packages being > installed or the current action being performed in a scrolling list. We considered displaying package names but they fly by too fast to be read. Displaying the current action in a scrolling list would be live display of the log creation which would also fly by too fast to be read (for most operations) and quite difficult to manually scroll when the content is constantly and rapidly expanding. (The log should be available for inspection from within the installer after the bits a laid down.) Both of these would tend to slow down the install a bit.
These are solutions to a problem, so what is the underlying problem you would like addressed? To be assured that the install hasn't locked up? A more accurate indication of the progress of the install? Information that would help you debug install problems? And given a clear problem statement, what information would be most helpful? Thanks, Frank > > Regards, > Moinak. > > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> For those who might be interested to see how the Dwarf GUI is >> progressing, we have created a binary package (X86) which is a >> snapshot of the latest development code. >> >> Package can be downloaded from here: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install.pkg >> >> To install and run: >> >> $> pkgadd -d SUNWgui-install.pkg >> >> $> install-lan >> >> install-lan is the initial pre-install screen and will take care of >> chain loading the keyboard-layout program and finally the actual >> install program itself (gui-install). gui-install hides until it >> receives SIGUSR1, which the keyboard-layout program sends it. >> >> >> Now for the usual disclaimers? >> >> * This demo does not do an install or upgrade. It is simply a GUI >> demo to show the new look and feel for the Caiman GUI's. >> >> * This is code under very heavy development. There is lots of >> stuff that doesn't work yet or hasn't been implemented. If you think >> you see a bug(and you will), chances are we are aware of it :-). This >> is pre-pre-pre Alpha. >> >> * Comments/suggestions/ideas are welcome. >> >> We will also update the available demo apps on the Dwarf Caiman demo >> page as regularly as possible: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Dwarf/Dwarf_Demo/ >> >> Happy demo'ing! >> >> thanks, >> Dwarf Caiman team >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
