severity 177346 wishlist severity 177445 wishlist thanks sön 2003-01-19 klockan 01.06 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > When installing, and only one package satisfy a required virtual > package, a question with only one alternative is presented. In the > cases where only one package is listed, the question should not be > presented at all, and the only available option should chosen > automatically. > > Example from a CDROM install: > > Choose the retriever to use. > The retriever is responsible for fetching the modules to be installed. > 1. cdrom-retriever: CDROM retriever (default) > Prompt: 1 - 1> I can agree with this one (which is actually in anna, as Matt noted too), but it might also be nice to actually see where the modules are coming from. is. > Another example from the same install: > > Choose a configuration step > > This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not > yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue. > 1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) > Prompt: 1 - 1> > > Both questions are useless. Yes and no. I've been thinking on adding an "Abort" choice (which will be implemented as a debconf back thingy, rather) so that you can go back to the main menu if you don't want to do the middle step, and perhaps an "Override" choice instead of the dummy packages we have now. For both cases, there is also the UI design principle of not changing an interface between invocations, which is why you rather gray out and disable options (in a GUI) than hide them, when they are unavailable. "Things moving around" is more applicable to a GUI of course, but I don't know which is more confusing, being asked a question with just one answer, or suddenly being asked extra questions when you try to do the same thing again. Do we have any usability people on this list? I don't really know anything about this. /Martin
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