Anaconda/UX Redesign/Design Comments 1

General

• General comment: Progress indicator? "How many steps do I have left?"
• General comment: Why not have a help button on each screen that brings up more descriptive info?

Flowchart

• Put preupgrade here?
• Need to explain difference between upgrade & preupgrade
  • They'll be one and the same moving forward? --Duffy 18:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
• Network twice?
  • Yep, first time is the network for the installer, we list it in the 1st hub in case you change your mind and want to change how you set it up
• Storage is in flux right now... (mo's comment)

Welcome and Language

• Can we use geo-location to suggest languages?
• Can language, keyboard, and time zone be a single screen?

Network

• How does this look with a server with 8 NICS?
• What about bonding adapters? bond0?
• Needs a skip button
• allow blinking lights on NIC if more than 1 NIC available
• Automatic" should be labeled with (DHCP)

Hub #1

• Really need a scrollbar for this?
• Install destination / disk selection
• Perhaps a visual cue to indicate screens you have not visited?

Software Selection

• GNOME 2 desktop
• None (headless server)
• For RHEL this will be based on products / will look different (mo note)
• visually make this a more interesting panel. desktop env icons

• What if I don't know what a yum repo is?

Language

• earlier type-ahead filter obx was on top

Keyboard

• does everyone see this kbd stuff? or is it an advanced thing I need to go out of my way to select? is it necessary to require everyone to see?

• [ ] Right Alt

Date and Time

• Defaults based on Geo-IP - will this work in a corporate network environment?

Install Source

• Grammar / install source reads like I'm installing the SRPMS
• Allow user to add a KS file if missed it in the boot line on this screen

Storage Disks

• Cloud storage? (Gluster)
• Where is RAID or LVM config done?

• Show unformatted disks first (if any?)
• Different icons for single disk, volume group, RAID, SSD, SAN
• How to install to RAID set?

Storage Filter / Network Devices

• These only show up if you click "Add a disk" on #9-1-2
• I assume zSeries tab would only appear on Z

• Gluster?

Storage Sanity Check

• Can it shrink NTFS?

• The word "cancel" is ominous. Con't tell implications. How far back in the sequence will I go?

Storage Partitioning

• Pink is capacity cost of adding features (mo note)

Hub #2

• fucking great idea
• list of common / frequent bugs

• abolish Fedora GPL EULA!

User Details

• Perhaps show "password strength" here also? (weak, strong, etc.)
• or authenticate against Active Directory
• Option to enroll machine with an IPA environment?
• You've got CAPS LOCK on warning