I agree with Daniel that combining all the screens goes to far, but I sort of like the concept behind Ryan's single-screen dialogue. How about something like this:
Screen 1: Welcome Brief welcome message. Language - From what they chose at boot, dropdown list. Keyboard - Autodetected as it already is, dropdown list. Location/TimeZone - Autodetected, otherwise to "Unknown [GMT]", a button to open current map dialogue. Computer Name - textbox, default text "ubuntu-desktop" Screen 2: Installation Location The current partitioning screen, but simplified/hidden even more. Text like: "Ubuntu will be installed beside Windows XP on this machine. How much space do you want to give to Ubuntu?" A scroll box (in percent, I would think) of free space. A button that says "Change" which takes you to the current partitioning screen. Screen 3: Users Not sure how best to merge the import screen and the user-info screen, but I think they should both go into one screen here. Perhaps have a dialogue for create-a-user which opens by default (this allows manual entry or importing for all data). Then ask "Create another user?" (opens the dialogue again) or "Done?". Screen 4: Confirmation Since the fourth screen doesn't really require much interaction, we could do some marketing with our "three-step install" or something along those lines. Just my two cents, Evan
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