Here are some more (mostly minor) comments on the GUI (overall, I like it!):
1) Is the first screen 'language' or 'locale'?
2) It would be nice to have all the translations there.
3) Only Korean has a shortcut? (the underline on the K)
4) Do radio buttons scale to the number of language/locales that we need?
5) I think this first page could use a title (e.g. "Select a language",
or "select a locale").
6) Espanol needs a tilde over the n. I'm missing a couple of unicode
characters in the translation of Chinese - Simplified (the first two
characters are boxes). Francais needs a cedilla on the c, too... :-)
7) Why are the first two pages completed with "OK", but the next pages
completed with "Next>"? It seems to me that it might be more
consistent to use "Next>" throughout.
8) On the Disk page, generally items that are not selectable should be
greyed out, rather than giving me an error message ("this disk is too
small") after I click them. (It's probably better to leave them on the
list as greyed out, rather than taking them off the list entirely.)
9) On the Disk page, the "type '=' into any partition size to adjust the
available disk space" seems strange. What does it do? (I couldn't
figure out how to type an equal sign into any Size field here). That
would be a fairly non-standard thing to do -- what's the intent here?
10) If I have one active partition, and I make it smaller, should the
available space show up in the "Unused" partition? Or maybe, I'm not
sure how the "unused" partition type works, because its size field is
greyed out and set to zero when I select "Unused". Don't "Unused"
partitions also have sizes?
11) On the Disk page, "Next>" should be the default button, if I press
ENTER.
12) On Date and Time, I think the date should be changed to be like
"Apr" "6" "2007", and the YYYY-MM-DD string should be deleted. If it's
####-##-##, then it needs an explanation, but if it's MONTH-##-####,
then the confusion (which requires the help string) is eliminated by
design. In any case, the '-'s between the M/Y/D could also be eliminated
this way -- no need for them.
13) It could probably also be localized as per the initial two panels.
(e.g. in Europe, the order is different from the US.)
14) Hmmm...the Hour field is 0 - 12. That doesn't seem right. Are 0 AM
and 0 PM both valid times?
15) Might want to consider making the hour field wrap, e.g. 12 --> 1 if
^ is clicked (just the way most real clocks work).
16) Might want to consider making the hour field and the AM/PM fields 24
hour in other locales (or maybe you already did this? I didn't check... :-)
17) On the Users screen, if the passwords don't match for the user
account, the error message is "User account error - must enter all or
none of the user account information". This is fairly generic (and
somewhat misleading).
I think there's a much better way to handle errors: if the data is
invalid (e.g. passwords don't match), then don't enable the "Next>"
button. (Of course, make sure that there's a visible error message
somewhere in this case.) When the data is there, the Next> button
should be the default when ENTER is pressed.
18) Same thing on the Install page -- if I haven't accepted the terms of
the license agreement, don't enable the Install button for me.
19) Note the error message in this case is "License not agreed. - Do you
consent to license agreement ?", with an option of CANCEL or OK. This
is not quite good English...and Cancel/OK could probably be changed to
something better, like NO/YES.
20) I'd like an STOP INSTALLATION button on the Install panel somewhere,
in case I wanted to stop/abort the installation process. (Quit is not
the same thing, IMHO).
21) The popup "DVD 2 Install" seems like the wrong question to me. If I
asked for some amount of stuff to be installed, and it's on DVD 2, then
it should be just the second panel: "Please insert DVD 2", rather than a
question, right? Then when the "Please insert DVD 2" info popup does
show up, the button should be OK or PROCEED or CONTINUE, instead of
CLOSE (the red X is the problem here, I think).
22) "Initialising" is spelled wrong (at least for the US locale! :-) on
the Installing panel.
23) I think that the "Please remove DVD 1 and reboot" popup should be
"Please remove DVD 1" and the button should say "REBOOT NOW" (instead of
"Close").
24) I can't get past the "Insert DVD 2" popup (demo hangs).
Overall I think the installer is definitely moving in the right
direction -- great progress, all!
Mike
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.
