Re: Some minor d-i problems
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:31:45PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > our UI policies. I suspect your friend may have ran into a known bug > that brings a user back to the described screen after they have > successfully set up an apt source; cancel is indeed one way to get out > of that loop. This bug is fixed in unstable. Good. Thanks for the information. > Gnome in testing is seriously broken, this should be resolved soon. I'm looking forward :-) [Btw. I don't care about a graphical installer myself, but don't ask me how many times people asked me about it or even look down at Debian because we don't have it. Aarrgghh.] Cheers, -- W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some minor d-i problems
W. Borgert wrote: > a colleague of mine installed Sarge (netinst ISO image of 2004-01-11). > He's a Windows guy and a very good professional GUI design engineer. > He used Linux before (SuSE). Here are his comments: > > 1. In the submenu "Configure apt" you can choose different methods, >such as ftp, http, file system. There are two buttons "OK" and >"Cancel". Pressing "OK" seems to lead to testing the source >(right?), but the dialog stays. If you are finished with >selecting sources, you have to press "Cancel". This is very >confusing. My colleague suggests to rename "OK" to "Check >source" or "Test connection" and to rename "Cancel" to >"Complete" or "Finish" There could be an additional "Cancel" >button to get back to the main menu, but in this case that would >be identical in behaviour of the "Complete" button. There is no mention of "Cancel to continue" anywhere in the debian-installer; that would be braindead and violate at least two of our UI policies. I suspect your friend may have ran into a known bug that brings a user back to the described screen after they have successfully set up an apt source; cancel is indeed one way to get out of that loop. This bug is fixed in unstable. > 2. OpenOffice has been installed, but he is sure, that he did not >select this package. This was annoying (BIG package). OpenOffice will be installed if you choose the "Office" task in tasksel. > 3. GNOME has been installed, but a login from GDM was not possible >with the GNOME session, only with KDE. (.../gnome-session or >so was missing). Gnome in testing is seriously broken, this should be resolved soon. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Some minor d-i problems
Hello, a colleague of mine installed Sarge (netinst ISO image of 2004-01-11). He's a Windows guy and a very good professional GUI design engineer. He used Linux before (SuSE). Here are his comments: 1. In the submenu "Configure apt" you can choose different methods, such as ftp, http, file system. There are two buttons "OK" and "Cancel". Pressing "OK" seems to lead to testing the source (right?), but the dialog stays. If you are finished with selecting sources, you have to press "Cancel". This is very confusing. My colleague suggests to rename "OK" to "Check source" or "Test connection" and to rename "Cancel" to "Complete" or "Finish" There could be an additional "Cancel" button to get back to the main menu, but in this case that would be identical in behaviour of the "Complete" button. 2. OpenOffice has been installed, but he is sure, that he did not select this package. This was annoying (BIG package). 3. GNOME has been installed, but a login from GDM was not possible with the GNOME session, only with KDE. (.../gnome-session or so was missing). Normally I would write a formal installation report or file some bugs in the BTS, but because I didn't the installation myself, I just want to inform d-i hackers. Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
