On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/01/2014 10:18 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: >> >> - Detecing other OSes better for dual boot. I have seen quite a few >> cases where a Windows installation gets broken after Fedora is >> installed > > > Details / bug #? The only cases I've seen Windows get broken is actually due > to something outside of Anaconda's control - Windows not available for boot > in grub due to EFI-related stuff - that is easily worked around. > >> - Another case would be someone installed Fedora with their Windows >> drive disconnected and now wants to add Windows to the grub menu. > > > What kind of user are you thinking about here? What level of expertise? I'm talking about novice users. >> Maybe a wizard here would be nice that would update grub for the user. >> - Making the partitioning process simpler. Add a few safe guards. >> People have reported blowing away their partitions by accident. > > > Where is this reported? The number of safeguards in the new anaconda is > massively increased compared to how the old anaconda worked. It takes a much > more conservative approach than it ever did, and none of the changes to disk > are committed until the user starts the install. Most of these things I'm referencing here have been reported informally on IRC in #Fedora so I don't have bug relevant bug numbers here. Sorry about that. >> - Adding a ton of tool tips to the UI. Try and predict what people are >> thinking and try and answer their questions before they have one. > > > Which UI? The UI in Anaconda before the user hits install. Let me compile a more coherent list of things so that I'm better prepared to bring them up over the next few days and get back to you. Do you have a link to the workarounds for dualboot/EFI? I'd be interested in reading up on those. Thanks. Dan -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
