On 31/05/18 12:23, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on improving the Fedora boot experience, with the
> end goal being a user pressing the on button and then going
> to the graphical login manager without him seeing any
> text messages / menus filled with technical jargon.
Making the boot process less "magical" by not presenting "text messages /
menus filled with technical jargon" sounds like a nice user experience - when
everything works.
But we need to account for all the times things do not work too well. Diving
into a menu by pressing a button or key within a reasonable time window is
challenging for many non-techs. So this would be a worse user experience if
they struggle to enter this "hidden menu".
I'd rather consider a different approach. Rather have a closer look at this
"technical jargon" being presented. Just a quick example from one of my
Fedora VMs:
'Fedora (4.15.8-300.fc27.x86_64) 27 (Cloud Edition)'
Why not just say: "Fedora 27"
Or even just "Fedora", as it's not possible to boot into, say, "Fedora 26"
unless lots of tweaks at the install/upgrade time has been done.
Then have a sub-menu called "Recovery options", where you can list older
kernels specifying kernel versions - but make that simpler too. Instead of
"4.15.8-300.fc27.x86_64" just say: "4.15.8-300"
So the menu could look something like
-----------------------------------------------------
Fedora
Recovery options
|`- Fedora (older kernel, 4.13.0-103)
|`- Fedora (older kernel, 4.14.5-300)
|`- Fedora (older kernel, 4.15.3-304)
\-- System recover mode (expert)
-----------------------------------------------------
Just my 2cents.
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kind regards,
David Sommerseth
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