Re: [GSoC] Sysinst alternative interface

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 04:47:55PM +0400, Alexander Tarasikov wrote:
> Well, what I meant is that it would be good to first create the installation
> plan, let the user either make changes to it or accept as is. The current
> approach when you are asked questions and on each step can either accept the
> offered option or exit installer is a bit confusing. But on the other hand,
> I understand that adding the ability to, for example, go to a previous page,
> change something there, may be a complex thing to do.

Note that the 5.1 is a lot different to the -current one (which also has
gained some bugs right now). I think the "go back and undo selections"
part only is hard for partitioning itself, and for everything mostly is
avaliable, sometimes via a slightly longer loop than "just one step back"
though.

The sysinst UI is pretty much streamlined for very quick installs, if we
can make it even better (more userfriendly, error forgiving), the better. And
we should do it for the text version as well.

> You have much more experience with netbsd and sysinst, so I think you have a
> clearer vision of what should be changed and what left intact.

Heh, not sure - and others obviously disagree with me on details like this ;-)

Martin