On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:43 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote: > > Idea: the installer branches just from the beginning: > > > > -Easy install (only installs Gnome) > > > > -Advanced install (shows a big warning screen about installng multiple > > DEs, could be confusing, not recommended for newcomers, your pet could > > die, etc etc ). > > > > bingo, both sides pleased. > > > > See? It wasn´t so difficult after all.. :P > > (1) In our experience, most people will decide they are advanced (they > genuinely think they are advanced, or don't want to feel like they're > missing something, etc.) so there's little point to dividing the > interface like this. > > (2) Maintaining two interfaces is a nightmare. > > (3) The time for making major design decisions was the first half of > 2011, when we started talking about this. Note that Mandriva used to have this kind of 'simple/advanced' design in its installer and progressively dropped all the 'advanced' dialogs, for precisely the reasons Chris suggests. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
