Re: installer final touches matters

[Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

I work in three languages and thought about translations to French.  I revised two sentences.

Which and the,  I prefer the  "the" 
before/after

Choose which storage devices will be a part of the Fedora installation.
vs
Select the storage devices you want to be part of the Fedora installation.

In French, sélectionnez vs choisissez , the former is better.


The 'Full disk summary and options...' link may be used to configure bootloader location if needed.
vs
If needed, the 'Full disk summary and options...' link may be used to configure bootloader location.
 


Regards

 Leslie

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--- On Thu, 1/24/13, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: installer final touches matters
To: "Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer" <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 3:25 PM

On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Choose which storage devices will be a part of the Fedora installation.
> Any device you do not select here will be left untouched by this
> installation process. The 'Full disk summary and options...' link may be
> used to configure bootloader location if needed. Clicking Continue will
> take you to the next step of storage configuration, where you can plan
> to free up space for the installation if needed, or choose to configure
> your planned storage layout manually. No changes will be made to your
> storage devices until you complete this configuration process, return to
> the main screen, and click "Begin Installation".
>
> I really think that just doing something that simple would go a long way
> to clearing up the confusion.

Yeah. My bias is less is more, which is difficult to achieve. I'd arbitrarily impose a two or three sentence limit on this. I like the first two and last one. Everything else I'd suggest as mouseovers. While I'm often very verbose, I expect UI to be very concise. A curious combination.


Chris Murphy

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