Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

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On 10/12/2010 10:35 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
>
>
> 2010/10/12 James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>     On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 16:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>     > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:11 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
>     > > >  - suggests a username and hostname based on the user's real
>     name
>     > > >    (Mac OS X's installer also does this -- it's a nice touch)
>     > >
>     > > If DNS knows a hostname, we will suggest that.  Of course it's not
>     > > foolproof.
>     >
>     > That's not it. Your name is entered (Chris Lumens) and from it you
>     > should get a hostname (chris-lumens-fedora-desktop.local) as
>     well as a
>     > presentation name ("Chris Lumens' Fedora Desktop") which could
>     be used
>     > for things like services being advertised through avahi, or even the
>     > default name for the Bluetooth adapters.
>
>      The Mac does this too, and I'm sure it's great for avahi stuff
>     ... but
>     it's really annoying for anyone using the hostname anywhere else
>     (mainly
>     due to the expected size).
>      Is there nowhere else that we could store a "hostsummary" instead of
>     hostname?
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> I believe anaconda is Ok, But many users complain about it, I honestly 
> can't understand why.
because it's ugly. among ALL installers that I've used ( mint / debian / 
suse >=9 ) anaconda has the ugliest user interface. And I mean all 
versions that I ever used , in RH ( pre-RHEL era), Centos and Fedora.

> What I can undersand and even say is that anaconda needs a little 
> "more polished" experience.
exactly. there are tons of facilities but the aspect "could be improved"

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