Bug#404954: Some comments about the installgui
Package: installation-reports
Severity: minor
Hi!
Sorry for filing this as installation-reports, but I'm not sure to which
packages these comments should go.
I tested the business-card daily-build, with the "installgui" command.
This is not about the installation itself, but about some GUI things.
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First of all, the first screen "Select your language" looks really awful.
You probably already know this, but the fact that the letters are not
fixed-size makes the text look garbled.
A possible solution would be to use fixed-size fonts, another solution
would be to add a way to put things in columns. But it currently looks too
messy to be displayed to the common user.
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Another thing is the "Screenshot" button. Is this button going to be
removed from the "official" versions? It's really not necessary and not
"professional" to have a screenshot button in the installation screens.
If there really _needs_ to be a Screenshot button, then it would be better
if it would be a small icon, and somewhere where the user would not spot it
(like in the upper right corner or something like that).
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Another really ugly thing is that when you are inside the "Choose Language"
section, in the country choosing, for example, if you press "Go back", it
goes to the main menu and not to the previous screen.
Now, both a common user and an expert user expect a "Go back" button to go
**BACK** and not to an unknown new screen. This is completely confusing.
To fix this, either make the "Go back" button go back, or change it into
"Main menu" or something.
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About the "Choose Language" thing, it took me a while to understand why it
said "Choose Language" when I was actually choosing my country. If you are
going to make it a section, then the title should better be more global.
Something like "Choose your localization" or "Localization choosing".
Also, after selecting "Spanish" in the first screen, the section title
still read "Choose Language" instead of "Escoja un idioma" (or whatever the
translation is).
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This is just a small wishlist but, would it be possible to detect the
double-click on a selected item as a "Continue"?
I really expected that to work in the GUI interface.
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Finally, I think that this is the only real bug of this report, I did the
following (yes, I'm complicated):
1) I selected Spanish
2) I went back
3) I selected Russian
4) I went back
5) I selected Spanish
6) I moved on
When I moved on, the section title was still in Russian, and even if I kept
choosing stuff, and the rest of the messages were all in Spanish, the
section title kept being in Russian.
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Well, that's all for now. I'll have more comments soon. Thanks for all
the work you do :)
Love,
Marga
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