Re: Installer help text

[John Buttery <john@io.com>]

* On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:49:58PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I can't speak for others but, well, there's maybe some interesting
> stuff to dig here....theoretically. 

  Heh, "theoretically".  Non-committal...fair enough.  :)

> This would however require more coding here and there and this is
> something we maybe cannot afford now. The resources in the D-I team
> are quite scarce and we'll have to keep them alive when the graphical
> installer will be out.
> 
> I also fear a giant work induced on translators. The most active ones
> will probably cope with this but the smallest teams might be
> frightened by the amound of needed additionnal work.

  I agree, that is the biggest problem I see as well.  I'm willing to
write the English version of the "extended help", of course, and I could
do a decent job translating it to Spanish, but other languages would
have to come from others.  Seems like the coding would be minimal; just
stick an extra button in there that launches a window with the text in
it and a close box.  I've been wrong about that sort of thing before,
though...

> For all these reasons, I think this can only happen after we release
> Etch, ie after the first Debian version featuring a graphical
> installer.

  No offense, but I'm not willing to wait that long for what seems to me
to be a pretty simple feature.  If it's a matter of waiting until 2011
to get some new help into the installer, I'll just write it on a web
page and tell my friends to go load the page and print it out.  :)
  Actually, that's not a bad idea...that way, if we do decide to do this
then I'll already have the text written.

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