Re: graphic installation to debian
Quoting Attilio Fiandrotti (fiandro@tiscalinet.it):
> hi
>
> the 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)
I'm not really sure what you're talking about, actually..:-)
Anyway, for sure, the partman main screen is a huge hack to present a
kind of menu to suers and we all know it's suboptimal...
> 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.
Not as long as we want. They have to fit on a 80x25 screen, along with
the short description, with the dialog interface. This is mandatory.
> 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..
I don't really agree here. Explaining what is a MD and the differences
between RAID flavours pertain to the documentation. Even more, they
pertain to the user's "cultural" background. Anyone installing a RAID
system without knowing what is RAID deserves the horrible problems
(s)he will have, imho.
> 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.
While I agree that we must try to take advantage of the graphical
frontend , it should in no case be the dimensioning part : the dialog
interface will remain and will probably still be the default interface
for installs. So nothing should be specific to the graphical
interface.
What should be possible is adding some "extra" text which could be
displayed under a "help" button in the graphical interface (or maybe
the text interface if we find a way to do so). I'm pretty sure that
Joey has some ideas about this..:-)
But, in no case should this text be mandatory, ie the installer should
remain usable without it.
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