hithe description of the main question of the disk partitioning tool comes to my mind: it's so long that it needs a textarea to allow word wrap, whilke a matching extended description is not provided at all. (i inserted a woraround for this in the gtk but this of course is not optimal) Normal questions descriptions should be "short", while extended description can be as long as we want since they are displayed in a sctollable textview widget. Many questions like the one that lets you choose what type of md (0/1/5) array has to be created lack an extended descrtiption: since creating md arrays is a not-so-easy operation we could offer to the user more informations about what a md is, what's the difference between raid 0/1/5 etc.. Those are just two examples: try to perform a complete debian-installation (including lvm, md, network and grub advanced tweaking) with the gtk frontend and you'll find many questions that are not descripted as well as they could. If the gtk frontend is someday going to become the default frontend for the installer those annoying "bugs" are to be corrected for sure.
ciao Attilio psi've noticed that th md tool doesn't warn the user if he installs the /boot on a /md/x, while RH's anaconda does: the result is the unability to install grub after the base-system has been installed.
Christian Perrier wrote:
lacks extended descriptions for many questions and "short" descriptions are not used the correct way).^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do you have specific examples?