Am Friday 30 January 2004 21:57 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson: > 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? It is defenitely a very nice thing!
> "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.) I think this terms are better than the original. I think the keybord item should use better names for the keyboard type too. "us" is not that descriptive to novice users. > 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? With the proposed term changes, I think most people understand this overview. I'm not a novice, but I guess this would fit my needs normaly. So it seems to be quite a balanced selection of items. It's just a little easier to click "install with these settings" once than having to ask one question after the other. If a novice doesn't understand an item, it doesn't feel that bad to go further than if he's presented a whole "wizard-step" he can't answer. So the defaults (which should fit novice's needs) are more easily accepted without asking oneself: "$*%§! I don't understand a word, but I sure have to change something...". > Of course, I still think we shouldn't do too ugly hacks close to release. > Of course, nobody knows when release is supposed to be... I'm following debian-boot for quite some time, and this is one of the most userfriendly proposal (maybe besides partman) I saw up to now! I think this would realy ease the pain of installing debian. So... please do it now Simon who is impressed by the progress of d-i in the last few months -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
