[Mageia-dev] Are you sure? (no confirmation before proceeding to selected packages installation)

Fri May 4 17:19:26 CEST 2012

2012/5/4 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+>
+> Le 4 mai 2012 16:29, "Thomas Backlund" <tmb at mageia.org> a écrit :
+>
+>
+>>
+>> 04.05.2012 17:27, Thierry Vignaud skrev:
+>> > On 4 May 2012 16:19, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
+>> >> Mageia's installer has the same problem that bothers me in Mandriva.
+>> >> The
+>> >> type install screen with KDE vs Gnome vs custom has no intermediate
+>> >> step
+>> >> prior to the start of selected packages installation. Does this bother
+>> >> no
+>> >> one else?
+>> >
+>> > Too late to report.
+>> > When people will cease to do ala Gael tests aka just before the final?
+>>
+>> Well, only too late for mga2, but it can get on wishlist for mga3
+>>
+>> --
+>> Thomas
+>>
+>
+> Another case is when you install in the existing partitions and in the
+> partitioning screen you choose the partitions, /, /home, etc, and you have
+> checked in the checkbox a partition to be formatted.
+>
+> It seems very logical to me that in this step a confirmation is more than
+> usefull.
+> Before a 2-3 years there was a brainstorm in mandriva and i had proposed the
+> usage of confirmation dialogues. I cannot find the link now, but the answers
+> that i got was like 'you click on OK so you have to be sure', 'no needed,
+> useless feature' etc.
+>
+> If there will be a brainstorm in mageia, i would like to try to propose it
+> again.
+
+Do you think you will get a different result? Look at Microsoft.
+People were so annoyed by all these "Are you sure" popups that
+comedians started to refer to these popups in their standup sessions
+("Do you really want to use the brake pedal?"). AFAIR there hasn't
+been such a popup at the situations you pointed to as long as
+Mandrake/Mandriva existed. I haven't heard anybody complaining about
+this (until today).
+About the selection screens:
+
+For me the first selection screen (KDE - Gnome - Custom) serves the
+new user who wants to get on with the installation without any
+interactive stuff he would not know how to handle it. So the screen
+presents 2 options which will get him a standard system with one
+click. Everybody else is surely able to understand the word "Custom"
+which opens the door to everything else. The next screen offers a
+package selection which allows for installation of whole groups (or
+non-installation). This same screen opens the door to the minimal
+installation options (if you deselect all package groups). It also
+shows the option "Individual package selection".
+
+To me this is a logical procedure (one step following the selection of
+the previous step).
+
+Of course Mageia could put something like "Clicking OK will start the
+installation" below the KDE and Gnome options or something similar.
+
+About the partitioning:
+
+What exactly do you miss there (you have seen the "expert" button?) ?
+
+IMHO there is nothing missing or at presented at the wrong state of
+the installation procedure.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+