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With regards to choice we felt for obvious [1] reasons that the |
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graphical installer should try to limit choices and make heavy use of |
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auto-detection. We did preserve the ability to alt-<some fn here> to |
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drop into the framebuffer console to cary on with the installation as is |
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done now. |
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During the research phase of our project, the survey we conducted among |
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our target audience showed 50 percent were interested in making choices |
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for customization, while the other 50 percent simply chose to "go with |
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the defaults" on everything. We felt that we allowed a level of |
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customization acceptable to please the customization crowd while still |
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providing a simple installation method. |
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The kickstart feature we have planned is also aimed at power users who |
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simply wish for a completely automated cloning procedure for an existing |
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system. |
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The biggest decision we made regarding user choice was to chose gnome as |
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our supported desktop environment. The framework we have created should |
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allow anyone to make a "KDE edition" or a "fluxbox edition" with minimal |
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effort (etc...). |
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[1] - obvious in terms of our target user personas |
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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:53, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 January 2004 21:45, Eli M. Dow wrote: |
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> > Hi everyone, |
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> > I am one of the co-authors of the pen2 project. I was wondering what |
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> > people were thinking currently about the goals of a sanctioned gentoo |
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> > graphical installer. |
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> > I don't have time to read the backlogs of this mailing list as my |
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> > semester is well underway. It would be excellent if someone could hit me |
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> > with a cluestick about the current consensus. |
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> > I would also like to answer any questions people might have about pen2 |
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> > and its design decisions. |
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> > Please look at http://pen2.sclab.clarkson.edu/ for those who haven't |
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> > heard of us or what we are trying to accomplish. |
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> > Anonymous CVS should be set up soon hopefully. A private internal cvs |
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> > server was used since this was for course credit. We also hope to have a |
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> > FAQ set up soon as well. |
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> You're project has allready hit the list. I think it is a good start. |
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> Currently we are mainly focussing on what we want from an installer. It will |
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> probably be some kind of hands-on installer with lots of flexibility. You are |
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> more than welcome to participate in the discussion (and later |
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> implementation). We are not really ready for implementation, but when we have |
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> decided on the features/design we can certainly try to incorporate pen2 into |
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> the installer. |
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> From my impression the pen2 installer is mainly aimed at providing an easy |
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> procedure. In general gentoo tries to have the first point of allowing |
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> choice. From that respect I think that more choice would be desired in the |
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> installer, but I think pen2 is indeed a good start. |
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> Paul |
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Eli M. Dow |
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Graduate Student HCI Group @ Clarkson University |
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Clarkson University Open Source Institute [COSI] |
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