Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Neal Becker]

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:

> On 10/12/2010 10:28 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>> Striving for usability and pleasantness for the untechnical users
>>> certainly is a good thing. It gets problematic when you choose to make
>>> things technically inferior just to please those kind of users.
>>
>> We don't have to make things inferior to improve usability.  To stick
>> with the "advanved storage" example:  IMHO the selection screen between
>> basic and advanced storage is confusing and superfluous.  First it
>> should probably be named "local storage" and "SAN storage".  Second
>> anaconda can default to local storage if a local disk is present (option
>> to add SAN storage needs to be there of course).  If no local disk is
>> present it can go straight to SAN setup.  One screen and one mouse click
>> less for most of the users.
> 
> If you want to appeal to the same audience Ubuntu is going for then you
> have to remove choice. The whole storage bit needs to be completely
> removed or at least stripped down. "advanced storage" certainly has to
> disappear completely.

I don't agree.  There's nothing unusual about a dumbed-down interface for 
novices, with an 'advanced' tab hiding more options.