<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> I think I was following<br> sorry for chiming in<br> $0.02 <br><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:10px;">-----<span style="font-size:10px;">-<span style="font-size:16px;"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;">Powered by:<br></span></span></span></span><img alt="Knoppix logo" src="http://www.thinkwiki.org/w/images/1/1a/Knoppix_logo.jpg" height="166" width="303"><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:53 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:14 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:<br clear="none">> On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Adam Williamson <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:awilliam@redhat.com" href="mailto:awilliam@redhat.com">awilliam@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > You might need to provide more details and background in posts like<br clear="none">> > this, Chris, considering the context. I don't think the desktop team is<br clear="none">> > as familiar with the ins and outs of installer partitioning as the<br clear="none">> > anaconda and QA teams. They don't deal with it every day. :)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>
OK I'm not sure how or what to provide that wouldn't also be obscenely verbose.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> My premise is that the present installer paths (Automatic and Manual)<br clear="none">> do not constitute limiting the user interaction to the minimum. But<br clear="none">> maybe all or most WG members consider the installer already meets<br clear="none">> these requirements?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> For comparison, by at least two orders of magnitude, the Windows and<br clear="none">> OS X installers are more minimalist. They each offer a handful of<br clear="none">> installed outcomes (including dual boot), whereas Anaconda<br clear="none">> Automatic/guided path alone offers dozens of outcomes, and the<br clear="none">> Manual/custom paths offers hundreds possibly infinite.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It would help for this audience to quantify exactly what 'automatic' and<br
clear="none">'manual' *are*, and the range of choices they currently expose.<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Adam Williamson<br clear="none">Fedora QA Community Monkey<br clear="none">IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.happyassassin.net/" target="_blank">http://www.happyassassin.net</a><div class="yqt0612861493" id="yqtfd48241"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">desktop mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="mailto:desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org">desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>