On 13.09.2012 22:02, David Lehman wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:00 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> Hey! >> >> I've been playing with new Anaconda since Alpha RC2 and I have some >> doubts about whole concept of this sub pages with configuration options >> and jumping around them. > You can indulge your doubts or you can adapt. It's up to you. I > recommend the latter. > >> Why, the hell user has to pres BACK each time he made some decision or >> configuration change? Personally I prefer pressing NEXT because this >> reminds me what the goal is (working system installation) and that I'm >> going to reach it sooner or later. >> >> It looks like some Fedora designers prefer to step backward then going >> forward to achieve what the installer was created for: Working Fedora >> system installation. > It's just a different model. Instead a long linear progression in which > every user must visit every page/step, you only visit those sections > that require your attention. It will save time for most users. > > You will be pleased to find (in the Beta) that we have changed the > wording of some of the buttons to improve clarity. > >> Please, don't tell me that this is because configuration could be done >> in parallel and it's for my convenience and to give me the choice which >> aspect of installation I prefer to configure first. Maybe it's good for >> advanced users but for dumb average computer guy this introduced lot of >> instability and is not intuitive. > If by "intuitive" you mean "the same as the old interface" then I must > agree. Otherwise, I think you are just trying to hold on to what you > know. > > Thanks for your reply. I know that new anaconda is different than old one. I really have nothing against changes and I think I'll quickly adapt. My only concern is new, and in my opinion not so intuitive, naming and proceeding convention by which Fedora 18 is installed. In my typical case, I had to touch every single spoke in the new installer, so I gained nothing. Only English speaking people can forget about configuring language and keyboard layout. Taking number of different time zones in US, we'll quickly find that majority of people will need to change this too. No need to say about disk layout which is more or less customized or at last reviewed by everyone (excluding unattended installations). Silently allowing people to leave root password not set is also bad idea in my opinion. I know what root account is and from previous Fedora releases I also know that I either must have a root account or user in admin group. But in new installer this is not so clear until firstboot is run (where, there is no correspondence to choices from anaconda). There is no clear explanation why should I leave root empty and that I'll be asked for adding user to admin group later. Once again, thanks for all great work, you and other anaconda devels have done. I'll try to accept as much new features as I can. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
