Bug#400833: installation-report: unclear keyboard use under installgui
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 00:30, Peter Klavins wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Initial boot: installgui usability
> It is not clear how to use the keyboard to select the triangles to open
> up the continent selection without using the mouse, e.g., select
> language english, then try to select Europe and Italy as the location
> using only the keyboard.
You can open/close the sublists using + and -
> Clock/timezone setup: timezone incorrect
> While the setup operation strictly is correct, the resulting time is
> one hour too fast for the timezone GST +1 (Rome). This is probably a
> side-effect of running inside a virtual machine which is itself running
> on Windows Vista which is already adjusted for Rome time.
Yes, sounds likely. The installer will have set up the system inside the
VM to UTC as it is probably the only OS inside the VM. It's pretty hard
to detect what a VM is running on :-P
This is one usecase we have not reconned with.
Just correct the UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS.
> Overall install: gui headings inconsistent
> During the GUI install the constantly updated detail lines are not
> reflected in the bold header, which sometimes changes, but other times
> seems to reflect the heading of the last section that required
> interactive user input. This is confusing because the bold font draws
> the eye to it, but on reading it you think there is something wrong
> because the heading sometimes doesn't correspond at all to the detail
> lines being installed.
I guess you mean during installation of packages from tasks? If so, that
is a known issue and the result of some packages still using an obsoleted
command to set the title.
Cheers,
FJP
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