W. Borgert wrote: > a colleague of mine installed Sarge (netinst ISO image of 2004-01-11). > He's a Windows guy and a very good professional GUI design engineer. > He used Linux before (SuSE). Here are his comments: > > 1. In the submenu "Configure apt" you can choose different methods, > such as ftp, http, file system. There are two buttons "OK" and > "Cancel". Pressing "OK" seems to lead to testing the source > (right?), but the dialog stays. If you are finished with > selecting sources, you have to press "Cancel". This is very > confusing. My colleague suggests to rename "OK" to "Check > source" or "Test connection" and to rename "Cancel" to > "Complete" or "Finish" There could be an additional "Cancel" > button to get back to the main menu, but in this case that would > be identical in behaviour of the "Complete" button. There is no mention of "Cancel to continue" anywhere in the debian-installer; that would be braindead and violate at least two of our UI policies. I suspect your friend may have ran into a known bug that brings a user back to the described screen after they have successfully set up an apt source; cancel is indeed one way to get out of that loop. This bug is fixed in unstable. > 2. OpenOffice has been installed, but he is sure, that he did not > select this package. This was annoying (BIG package). OpenOffice will be installed if you choose the "Office" task in tasksel. > 3. GNOME has been installed, but a login from GDM was not possible > with the GNOME session, only with KDE. (.../gnome-session or > so was missing). Gnome in testing is seriously broken, this should be resolved soon. -- see shy jo
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