Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:17:48 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Message-ID: <20001005221748.K31338@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <200010051802.LAA81470@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:02:10AM -0700 References: <200010051802.LAA81470@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:02 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> jkh 2000/10/05 11:02:10 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> release/sysinstall install.c
> Log:
> If user selects no distributions at all, assume "User" as
> a default. This should prevent people from whacking return at
> the Distributions menu and getting nothing selected as a result
> (a minimal "standard" system will at least install).
This makes something else bubble up (feel free to redirect me
somewhere else - into an archive? - in case this has been
discussed to death before).
What was the intension to move the "exit" item in the selection
menus from bottom to the top sometime between the 3.x and the 4.x
transition (that's when I noticed it). Formerly one was supposed
to walk through the options "on the way to leaving" the menu. I
considered this a Good Idea(TM). Now one can leave menus without
bothering what was the decision one was to make in this very
moment. Plus: Those of us taking the course through the menu
have to wade back to the top for leaving the menu.
This might have been a positive change for those who don't like
customizing (or those overwhelmed when asked for a decision since
they don't have any imagination of their needs and just want to
state "you do it for me, please!"). I consider this a negative
change for those who want to take action in the menus. And even
some of the other group just don't know better (yet) and would
recognize the advantage of being forced to have a look over the
menu on their way down towards the exit item?
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