2010/11/11 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > - Today we had some conversation in #anaconda and I wrote that up as > well on that last wiki page: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign/Current_Install_Process_Analysis > > I really want to help make our installation process an easy and pleasant > experience - so if you have any feedback on the above or ideas on how to > get there, let's talk about it. I think even bad or crazy ideas are good > brain food, and can lead to awesome innovation. I'm definitely planning > to put together some pretty crazy mockups to feed our brains so be on > the lookout for those. :) One of the things I know has been talked about and possibly tried over the years (heck it might be already in place) was basically separating the UI and the installer as two seperate tools. The UI basically creates the kickstart for the system and the installer takes that kickstart and operates on it. Some of the crazy ideas was that you could run the UI before the installer to work out and warn upgrade issues before you actually went through with it (it would then just add a boot option pointing to a initrd that contained the finished kickstart and a reboot would do a reinstall via that. It also allowed one to run through the installer and options in even Microsoft Windows before implementing the 'installation'. For the case of bare hardware, the install would not look much different. You would go through the UI screens and it would create a kickstart that could be run by the installer. [Or outputted to a flash or something in case you wanted to check out yourself and such.] I am not sure if this was followed along at some time and figured out to be too unworkable.. Or it turned into a "when we finally get to rewriting we should try this". The reason I brought it up is that it could allow for the UI design to be cleaner or expanded from what was initially thought out. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
