Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:23:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Language: English
> > Country: United States
> > Keyboard: us
> > Network: eth0 using DHCP
> > Hostname: debian
> > Mirror: http.us.debian.org
> > Mode: novice
> >
> > You really think that will come across as a big blob of data, rather than
> > a list of things that can be changed?
>
> "A big blob of data" is a bit too much, I'll admit that.
>
> However, assume the user knows nothing about what the heck "eth0", "DHCP",
> "hostname" or even "mirror" is; then I'd believe it's confusing. :-)
> Of course, if we could change to "first network card", "automatically",
> "computer name" and "download site" or whatever, it would probably be
> slightly easier. (I'm not really sure if those are sane terms or not, but
> you'd probably get the idea.)
>
> The question is, do we really need all of those? Even if the user har
> specified "novice" first? What will it buy us over the current rather
> "wizard-based" (if I can say that word without people throwing up ;-) )
> approach?
Maybe it should be:
Language: English
Mode: novice
Hostname: debian
and:
Language: English
Mode: expert
Country: United States
Keyboard: us
Network: eth0 using DHCP
Hostname: debian
Mirror: http.us.debian.org
that is, novice mode hides the Entries it has sane defaults for.
Thiemo
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
