On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/12/2010 10:28 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Striving for usability and pleasantness for the untechnical users certainly is >>> a good thing. It gets problematic when you choose to make things technically >>> inferior just to please those kind of users. >> >> We don't have to make things inferior to improve usability. To stick >> with the "advanved storage" example: IMHO the selection screen between >> basic and advanced storage is confusing and superfluous. First it >> should probably be named "local storage" and "SAN storage". Second >> anaconda can default to local storage if a local disk is present (option >> to add SAN storage needs to be there of course). If no local disk is >> present it can go straight to SAN setup. One screen and one mouse click >> less for most of the users. > > If you want to appeal to the same audience Ubuntu is going for then you > have to remove choice. The whole storage bit needs to be completely removed > or at least stripped down. "advanced storage" certainly has to disappear > completely. > The only way to accomplish this without actually removing the features is > to have two anaconda modes one for easy desktop installation and one full > featured mode. This mode should be chosen not by the user but by the spin > e.g. the desktop spin would use the easy mode and the server or workstation > spins would use the full featured one. > > You cannot make two distinct target audiences happy with one workflow > especially if one of those groups requires a limitation of choice. > > Regards, > Dennis > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Why this mode could not be selected by the user? I would say that the default mode be more like the Ubuntu installer and give the choice of an advanced mode like the current one. When you boot the CD/DVD, you could easily add the new choice in the list (Install, Install (advanced features), Boot from hard drive, etc). -- Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff) GPG key : 0xA9E6E953 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
