...and what are we to do when the screen goes black? On Jan 20, 2013 2:15 AM, "Muayyad AlSadi" <als...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, > > the fedora's new installer got many innovative features > > but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user > experiance point of view > > let me mention some > I've tried fedora 18 live cd, > > I was offered to choose LVM, standard or BTRFS > and later went through partitioning process and when I'm done > the "begin installation" button was disabled > leaving the user without any clue or error message > I've done all steps in a proper way (I've prepared a partition for / and > swap ..etc.) > I know what was the problem (as a fedora developer, I know that live > installation is just blind copying of an already made filesystem which you > can't change its type from ext4 to BTRFS) > > in general we should not offer BTRFS option > and always tell the user the reason and how he should fix it > > let's take this screenshot > > http://i4.minus.com/j0HyRgwBFv38q.png > > I believe the orange ribbon should be at the top > it's not status bad, it's an error flash message > > we see 3 items, one of them "no disk selected" > it has the same level of importance as the rest two, > I believe its background or foreground should be made red or orange. > > choosing the destination is scary, since people know there are some steps > might wipe the entire disk, the screen below needs a way to gently tell the > user that this step is not scare "the monster is not in this step" > > http://i.minus.com/jWQMDfIBvDHZZ.png > > later steps should *tell* the user what to do > eg. delete a partition then activate auto partitioning > or create an ext4 mounted as / > > always tell the user what is the problem and how can he/she fix it > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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