The discussion died off, so I'll sum it up:
* Almost everyone agreed that current situation is highly unsatisfactory.
* We have several ideas how to remedy it, which include: top bar button,
notification and welcome screen.
* We have just a single implementation, which is the top bar button.
S
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 12:44:17 -0400,
Matthias Clasen wrote:
That really depends on what use cases we see for our live cds. In my
view, there's really only two:
The primary use for a live cd is to install.
And then, there is a secondary use where you want to review or test
without the int
To summarize, I see two major paths:
a) Make installer launcher more visible:
e.g. http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png
-or-
b) Use a proxy window asking which use case is relevant for you:
e.g. http://i.imgur.com/I26vS.png
Both approaches are fine in my view and certainl
Once upon a time, Matthias Clasen said:
> That really depends on what use cases we see for our live cds. In my
> view, there's really only two:
>
> The primary use for a live cd is to install.
That's the primary use of the install media. The primary use of the
live media is to boot a live syste
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:29:27 -0400,
>Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> >For the 'make installing obvious' problem, what we really want is to
> >just autostart the installer. Unfortunately, the current live installer
> >does not really
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:29:27 -0400,
Matthias Clasen wrote:
For the 'make installing obvious' problem, what we really want is to
just autostart the installer. Unfortunately, the current live installer
does not really work well for that...
I don't think that is a good idea. This imposes a
> So, we decided for F16 that we don't want to add extensions like that
> to
> the shell that we ship on the live cd. It should be the default
> experience.
Can't be 100% default, because installer is a slightly different use case,
isn't it.
>
> For the 'make installing obvious' problem, what w
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > You can see it here:
> > http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png
> >
> > What do you think? Better than default?
>
> How about "Install Fedora" since it could be installed to SSD or
> iSCSI etc.
I pull that string from defa
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 09:26 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I was quite depressed how hard it can be for a layman to find a way to
> install Fedora from LiveCD environment. If you don't recognize the icon in
> Gnome Shell Overview mode, it can give you quite some work to find it. Since
> OSS philoso
> Would it be better to have the text say "Install Fedora" instead of
> "..
> to Hard Drive"? Hard Drive is becoming an obsolete term. You have
> flash
> drives, SSDs, or whatever else people install Fedora to.
I pull that string from default anaconda launcher. If they change it, it will
change a
Kamil Paral wrote:
> http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png
>
> What do you think? Better than default?
I like it. Good work.
Would it be better to have the text say "Install Fedora" instead of "..
to Hard Drive"? Hard Drive is becoming an obsolete term. You have flash
drive
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