Install Fedora Button for LiveCD
I was quite depressed how hard it can be for a layman to find a way to install Fedora from
LiveCD environment. If you don't recognize the icon in Gnome Shell Overview mode, it
can give you quite some work to find it. Since OSS philosophy is "if you don't
like it, fix it", I did. In the last two days I have created a Gnome Shell extension
that puts a button on the top bar that says "Install to Hard Drive". It has an
icon attached, so it's very visible. The graphics and the text is taken from
anaconda's .desktop file, so localization should work OOTB. When you click the button,
the installation process starts the same way as if you had run it from the overview.
You can see it here:
http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png
What do you think? Better than default?
I personally think it's definitely better than default. I'm sure it can be
improved in many ways, but this was my first GS extension ever and I'm really lame, so
bear with me (patches welcome). The source code is here:
http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.7z
How to try out:
1. boot F17 Beta RC2 Live
2. extract the extension to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
3. restart gnome-shell (Alt+F2 -> r)
4. install gnome-tweak-tool and enable this extension
Future steps if people like it:
a) find out how to include this just on the livecd, but not on the installed system
b) modify gsettings to have this extension automatically enabled
c) ask anaconda team to include it into their project and maintain it
Comments welcome.
Thanks,
Kamil
