Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:59:01 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD Message-ID: <201101160459.01915.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <4D31C22B.8040906@freebsd.org> References: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> <201101150730.01010.pieter@degoeje.nl> <4D31C22B.8040906@freebsd.org>
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On Saturday 15 January 2011 16:50:03 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 01/15/11 00:30, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > 2) The Partition Editor's confirmation dialog has two options "Don't > > Save" and "Cancel"; it is unclear what the difference between the two is. > > AFAICT "Don't Save" really means "Cancel installation", and "Cancel" > > really means "Re-edit" (I'm sure there's a better word for that). > > How abort renaming "Don't Save" to "Abort?" Hmm, is there enough room for "Abort installation"? Just to remove any confusion :-) > > 4) The Complete dialog doesn't say that it will reboot after pressing OK > > and gives you no oppertunity to remove the media, so the user will boot > > straight back into the installer (depends on bios settings). > > The first issue is easy to fix. The second is a little tricky to do in > the context of booting from a live CD. You can't remove the media while > the kernel is running because it's the root filesystem. I'm not sure > what the best solution is. I am thinking out loud here, but wouldn't it be possible to hand off the task of showing the final "Complete" dialog (or the stuff that needs to be done afterwards) to a process which is run from an md device? It could then unmount root and possibly even eject the CD. > > > 5) Pressing cancel in the NIC setup dialog doesn't cancel the > > installation but continues it without configuring a NIC. Perhaps this > > could be clarified in the dialog text. > > There are several steps like this. The add user, services, keymap, > tzsetup, and root password screens can also be canceled (by design). I'm > not sure what the optimal way to signal this to the user is. Beat Gaetzi > has suggested renaming cancel buttons on cancelable parts of the > installation to "Skip". The dialog title text could have have (optional) > appended to it or something. The way I had tried to do it is that things > that cannot be safely canceled (mostly) don't have cancel buttons right > now. "Skip" instead of "Cancel" sounds like an excellent idea. -- Pieter de Goeje
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