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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Are you sure? (no confirmation before proceeding to selected packages installation)</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Felix Miata at 04/05/12 15:19 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> Mageia's installer has the same problem that bothers me in Mandriva. The
</I>&gt;<i> type install screen with KDE vs Gnome vs custom has no intermediate step
</I>&gt;<i> prior to the start of selected packages installation. Does this bother
</I>&gt;<i> no one else?
</I>
While a moot point for mga2 as others have said, I'd prefer not to have
an extra confirmation here. &quot;Extra Clicks&quot; are things UI people try to
reduce and for good reason. You don't want people being &quot;click happy&quot;
and ignore anything that is said to them (i.e. the privilege escalation
dialogue in Windows Vista).

I do accept that more clarity is maybe needed so if you pick one of the
predefined sets (Gnome or KDE) perhaps the button should say &quot;Start
Installation&quot; rather than &quot;Next&quot;? When you select &quot;Custom&quot; it should
instead read &quot;Customise&quot;. That requires no extra clicks or confirmations
but should increase clarity to a level you'll be happy with.


&gt;<i> 2-There are no formatting options offered for /. Since I virtually
</I>&gt;<i> always install to a multiboot system, I require maximum
</I>&gt;<i> cross-installation compatibility. I can't have inode sizes, UUIDs and
</I>&gt;<i> volume labels changed willy nilly without having to go back and
</I>&gt;<i> reconfigure every other installation to conform to needless changes made
</I>&gt;<i> by a new installation. Format step really ought to offer selectable
</I>&gt;<i> format options so that an existing UUID, LABEL and/or Inode size could
</I>&gt;<i> be preserved and yet the / target really be empty.
</I>
This seems a very different point to the topic/subject of your mail. I
suggest you wait until mga2 is out and then submit your wish bugs.

Cheers

Col


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