Anaconda wishlist

[Bastien Nocera]

If you had a gnome-initial-setup (minus some steps, just language and
keyboard) in the Live environment, the only thing you'd need to setup
would be where to install the OS.

Which is about all I think an installer should do.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> I put together a desired installation experience wishlist. Let's
> discuss and consider forwarding this to the Anaconda developers as a
> request.
> 
> * Remove the timezone selection spoke. This spoke is redundant with
> gnome-initial-setup.
> * Remove or simplify the network configuration spoke. In the live
> installer, this spoke allows setting only the system hostname, but it
> follows different rules for setting the hostname than GNOME/systemd.
> The spoke should either follow hostnamed's rules for pretty hostnames
> (i.e. allows capital letters, spaces, etc. without any complaint), or
> the spoke should be removed. If we keep it, it should allow the user
> to set a "computer name" (avoiding technical terminology like
> "hostname") and should not include the phrase "network configuration."
> * Remove root password configuration. It's confusing how this is
> different from the user's admin account password. Advanced users can
> set a root password after installation if desired.
> * Remove user account creation. This is redundant with gnome-initial
> -setup.
> * Remove hub and spokes: simply go straight to keyboard layout
> selection after language selection, then from there to disk layout,
> optionally from there to the hostname panel, and then to the
> installation progress panel. This last panel will need a bit of a
> redesign, since it will be pretty empty otherwise.
> 
> Clearly this is mostly a list of things to remove, rather than things
> to add. The goal is to make installation as simple and easy as
> possible.
> 
> Changes to gnome-initial-setup: Skip language and keyboard layout
> selection in user creation mode. These panels cannot reasonably be
> removed from Anaconda, so we should use them only in existing user
> mode (when a new user account is created after installation). They're
> redundant in user creation mode.
> 
> This proposal leaves the disk layout spoke untouched, which is the
> most confusing portion of the installation experience, but it's more
> than enough changes for one release already.
> 
> Thoughts?
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